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 a theme from scratch. The default theme (Kubrick) contains just about everything we’ll need, so we’re going to use it as a base for creating our new theme. Even though we’ll be making a few changes to the default .php files, the vast majority of our time will be spent creating and editing style.css.
Ok, so let’s get started. Go ahead and make a copy of the default directory under yourdomain/wp-content/themes.
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