Creating a theme in WordPress

January 10, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Rachel Cunliffe has started this year with a wonderful series of posts on creating a WordPress theme.

First off, she's given us a list of useful resources for creating WordPress themes, and then came the actual posts.

So far, there are two posts describing two steps of creating a theme:

  • Creating a layout

    In this post, Rachel talks about the basics of your new theme layout. Before you get to actually code your WordPress theme, you really need to get absolutely clear about what you want your visitors to see on you blog and why.

    Your layout is supposed to be a well-thought positioning of your blog elements like logo, main menu, actual posts and additional content.

  • Creating a theme

    This step helps you getting started with actual coding – it explains how to create your theme template and CSS style definitions. Not only examples are shown and explained, but you can also download a ZIP archive with two files of the new theme.

 

I think this series will prove to be invaluable to anyone who's interested in creating WordPress themes of their own. I personally had never created a theme from a scratch, but have customized a number of them – so it is a good opportunity for me to understand the whole process even better.

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