Building a WordPress theme is no small task. It takes time, resources and a nearly unlimited amount of patience. I prefer to do my work all at once, but that means I will be sitting at the computer for hour after hour trying to tweak the design. And once you get something you like, you have to open that sucker in different browsers and see how they butcher your theme (of course, the regular nuisances of general web design apply here too). But either way, you will feel accomplished once you do complete the process. Building a WordPress theme, especially if you release it to the public, can be a very gratifying task. Anyhow, let’s begin!
Inspiration For Your Design
- Fresheezy – My newest favorite resource for checking on what other designers are producing.
- Smashing Magazine – These guys are great and always find the best designs.
- Open Web Design – Unlike its counterpart, this site still pumps out fresh amateur designs.
- WordPress Themes – A ton of themes, including those that are sponsored.
- Web Creme – A CSS gallery that gives you the site’s color scheme as well.
- Best Web Gallery – This CSS gallery is maintained by one of my favorite designers.
Tools And Preparation
- How To Install WordPress Locally On Windows – You need to have a local install to build themes.
- Installing WordPress Locally Using MAMP – This tells you how to set up a local install on your Mac.
- Notepad++ – This is my favorite of the Windows text editors.
- Coda – This web development program is the reason I want a Mac.
- Filezilla – The best FTP client available for Windows.
- Cyberduck – An FTP client for Mac OSX.
Tutorials To Build A Theme
- Anatomy of a WordPress Theme – To get you started, you should learn about how a theme is organized.
- How To Create Your Own WordPress Theme – A comprehensive guide to, well, build a theme.
- How to Design a WordPress Theme – A PDF E-book that takes you through all of the steps.
- How to convert any web template into a WordPress theme – This shows you how to take a template you have made or downloaded and convert it to a theme.
- WordPress Theme Guide – A breakdown of Kubrick available online, in a PDF and as a book!
- Wordpress Theme Development Workflow for OSX – The folks at Circle Six Design layout their work flow for theme development in OSX.
- From XHTML/CSS to WordPress – The Undersigned walk you through coding a template into a theme.
- So you want to create WordPress themes huh? – A massive 16 part series on creating a WordPress theme.
- Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch – The authority on WordPress, Lorelle, gives you her own list of theme creating resources.
Take A Short Cut: Blank Themes
- WordPress Blank Theme V2beta – A good blank theme to get you started!
- WordPress Theme Vorlage – Another useful blank theme with widget support.
- Tomorrows Laundry – Four differently aligned blank themes.
- Sandbox WordPress Theme – Almost forgot about this amazing blank theme. Thanks Lorelle!
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