Wordpress theme creation

There is a WSO that gives you the ability to create custom themes using drag and drop. I believe it's called Website Weaver or something like that. Good luck.

Hi Takuan,

It's actually very simple.

The basis of a theme is the customised pages. To create a template page you can do it like you would any html page but just by inserting the appropriate header information and saving as a template php file.

It'll then show up when you create new pages. You can do this as many times as you want to build up a selection of different layout, look, colours etc..

How many you create and what they look like is decided based on what the purpose of the site is and what layouts you need.

If you just Google it and have a play I'm sure you'll work it out very quickly.

I did this myself just so I could do it if needed.

The other thing you'll want to read about is 'widgetising' your theme so that the usual wordpress widgeting features are available.

You don't need to buy anything to learn this stuff. Wordpress tell you how to do it all and there are lots of free videos etc..

With a little bit of playing around and Google things you need to focus on you'll understand it in no time.

Andy

WordPress has a huge codex for teaching you about creating WordPress themes. Or you could use a generator like this: Wordpress Theme Generator - Lubith.com

Hey Takuan, If you are a web developer then visit Following page:

Theme Development « WordPress Codex

Above page will explain you everything ..

There is a free wordpress theme creator called WP Paintbrush coming currently it is in beta version which could be helpful in theme creation if you are not a web developer.

I have been creating most of my themes for the past couple of years using Artisteer

simple to use if you have no coding experience like me.

I have tested Artisteer before but those all seem to have almost the exact same format. Also, if I remember correctly, they add a bunch of notes into the code in all your files.