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…

You’ll notice that I’m currently running the “Default” theme for WordPress. There is a reason for that, and I guess that now is as good a time as any to tell you why….

So here’s the reason…

I haven’t had time to create a theme for this site yet. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have had time, but I wanted to do something a little different, or better…

There’s an interesting conversation going on over at Weblog Tools Collection in the comments regarding copyright infringement on WordPress Themes. It’s something that has been discussed quite a few times in the past and probably will be discussed many more times in the future.

The question, as I see it, is: Is it ok, or not, to create a theme based on the work of someone else?