I'll be updating this readme.md with my steps and a timestamp each update (will push to the repo after each new update)
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13:20 - project start. I've started by reading the project requirements and researching documentation for each item
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13:47 - Wordpress local install, .gitignore and readme.md creation
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14.12 - Created theme folder and barebones theme files: index.php, header.php, footer.php, style.css, screenshot.png and functions.php
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14.45 - Updated repo with all WP files. Spent some time reducing errors at Theme Check
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14.53 - Added theme sidebars
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15.00 - Added theme menu location
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15.07 - Added theme bakgrounds support
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16.49 - Added social and about widgets, changed Text Domain
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17.00 - Started with frontend HTML markup. Added site name and navigation menu
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17.10 - Added homepage posts loop and featured image size, regenerated thumbnails.
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17.28 - Added the categories, readmore link , and reordered the post elements a bit
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17.54 - Added the main sidebar and updated the widgets rendering
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18.24 - Added footer widgets and some logic to hide/show the section based on sidebars availability
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pause
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19.40 - started CSS
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20.40 - first CSS commit
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21.12 - added sidebar and footer css, added responsive layout
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21.36 - added single page, comments and comments css
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9:50 fixed theme check errors
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9:55 added page and page fullwidth templates
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10:23 Fixed a bug with the wp_link_pages( ) function, added responsive menu and dropdown menu features
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10:50 created search function. moved homepage query to loop.php to reuse at search.php template. updated h1 css for search and page titles.
- I spent much more time than I anticipated (almost 40 minutes!) working on the image upload widget.