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How To Customize Wordpress Themes ?

by wadboram
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Any WP software or Plugin to easily customize the appearnce of WP themes ?
#customize #themes #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
    There are so many plugins out there that can completely change your theme around, changing widgets on certain pages, adding sections to your theme, etc.

    it's pretty hard to pinpoint one piece of software that does it all.

    WordPress is a dream application for those of us who love to tinker (raises hand) ok, I'm a geek!

    Depending on the theme you choose, some of them have the ability to fully customize them yourself, ( like Twenty Ten and Graphene) but it always helps if you know a little CSS for advanced editing and then you can make changes to the style.css of any theme within the WordPress dashboard theme editor's section.
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  • Profile picture of the author ShdwMstr
    Originally Posted by wadboram View Post

    Any WP software or Plugin to easily customize the appearnce of WP themes ?
    It's always better to know some css to understand how customize the theme, and it's good idea if you know how to build a theme from scratch. I recently started with wordpress and I am still developing my theme but I know some css and nothing of php. But I am able to read some of the structure of the theme because I used to build static web pages before that's why I know some css and html...

    I like challenges and usually challenge myself to learn something new, one of the thing that help me to understand how wordpress works it's to try to develop my own theme.

    Google how to build a wordpress theme from scratch and that will help you ...

    let me know if you think I can help you...
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  • Profile picture of the author LovelyCornSyrup
    That's a bit of loaded question to be honest. Because there's a difference between using plugins and widgets, and actually changing the HTML/CSS of a page. The bones of a WordPress theme is the HTML/CSS, so if you want to do something like change bullet points on ordered lists you've got to jump into the code. Which in all honesty is more trouble than it's worth if you're not getting paid to do it.

    Over extending yourself is never really a good idea. I'd say buy a stock WP from a site like ThemeForest from an author that doesn't charge very much for modifications. That's probably your best bet if you're looking at software sized budget.
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  • Profile picture of the author wadboram
    Thank you guys for the replies.... Learning PHP will take some time for customization.
    That's why I thought of a quick & easy way to do the changes to my blog
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    You can either edit the theme's style.css file or, if you want to avoid losing your customisations when the theme is upgraded, then creating a child theme is the easiest way to go.

    In either case you'll need to know CSS.

    Here are the detailed instructions:

    Child Themes « WordPress Codex

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      Originally Posted by Abledragon View Post

      You can either edit the theme's style.css file or, if you want to avoid losing your customisations when the theme is upgraded, then creating a child theme is the easiest way to go.

      In either case you'll need to know CSS.

      Here are the detailed instructions:

      Child Themes « WordPress Codex

      Cheers,

      Martin.
      I always forget about Child Themes because I'm so used to making manual backups of everything, but they would definitely save time...thanks for the reminder!
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  • Profile picture of the author biggame5
    It really depends on what you want. What are you trying to do?
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  • Profile picture of the author wadboram
    I'm trying to edit Headers, footers adding banners or sidebar widgets
    I have found an excellent Firefox Add-on (FireBug) that Allows inspect, edit and monitor CSS, HTML, JavaScript and Net requests in any web page
    Firebug
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