Learn to Create Your Own WordPress Themes
June 16th, 2008 | Author: Jim Hutchinson
While there are many free WordPress themes from which to choose for your own blog, you may not find one that exactly suits your needs. If that describes you, then learning how to design your own theme may be what you are looking for.
Tessa Blakeley Silver wrote an instructional manual named WordPress Theme Design. It is intended to be a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes, with practical step-by-step instructions for theme design.
Included are development tools for setting up your WordPress sandbox, design tips and suggestions, setting up the template structure for your theme, coding markup, tips on testing, debugging and taking it live, reviewing the best practices.
Shriharsha Bhat of Packt Publishing said, “This book walks through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom theme for the WordPress open-source blog engine. The author provides design tips and suggestions and covers setting up the WordPress sandbox, and reviews the best practices from setting up the theme’s template structure, through coding markup, testing, and debugging, to taking it live.”
“The last three chapters cover additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to WordPress theme designs using 3rd-party plugins as well as creating API hooks to add custom plugins.”
Learn more about WordPress Theme Design by visiting Amazon.com.
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Jim Hutchinson
Website Managers, LLC
Discount WordPress Blog Hosting
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Wordpress is my favorite CMS and this post is a perfect example why.
Thanks for commenting on this. When I first heard about WordPress I was hesitant to start using it. But once I started learning all the things that can be done, WordPress has become my favorite CMS too. Sure there are some things that can be challenging, but learning how to handle those is what makes using this platform so much more satisfying. Keep creating and building. Let us know if you have any tips to share too.
Im very glad you made some updates, good job