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Black & Red Theme

Since I couldn’t think of a better name, here’s the Black & Red Theme that was created during the tutorial on Creating Your Own WordPress Theme. There are no restrictions on usage since it’s released under the GPL, but I would appreciate you keeping the link in the footer. Other than that, I [...]

Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 5

In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 4 we began adjusting the css to reflect what we want. In this part, we’ll wrap up this tutorial with a completed theme. There will probably be quite a few changes and this will be rather long. Hopefully we’ll have something a little unique when [...]

Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 4

In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 3 we managed to setup the basic layout. We’ll go ahead and pick up where we left off and see what we can get accomplished this evening.
Since I wasn’t happy with the link colors, I played around with various color combos for a couple of hours until [...]

Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 3

It’s been about a week since my last update to this series due to me being incredibly busy with paying work, but never fear…Part 3 is here.

In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 2 we finished up with a very basic theme with no styling. It works, but it’s ugly. Today we’re going to pick up right where we left off and get most of the layout…

Basic Theme For Creating Your Own WordPress Theme

For those of you who don’t want to go through all the steps included in Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 2, here are the base theme files that I use when creating a new theme.
Basic.zip

Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 2

In Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 1 we talked about writing down what you would like your theme to include and then drawing some pictures of your website to get an idea of what it would look like. Today we’ll use those ideas and drawings and get into the actual coding of the theme.

The first thing we need to realize is there is no need to recreate…

Creating Your Own WordPress Theme Part 1

Before you get started with creating your own WordPress theme, there are a few things that you’ll need.

  1. A Pen
  2. A Note Pad
  3. WordPress, Apache, MySQL, and PHP installed on your local computer or access to a WordPress test install on your website

I personally have everything installed on my local computer because, in my opinion, it makes it so much easier to adjust/tweak code without having to wait for the software to update…