Tutorial: How Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch (Basic Intro)

Uses this PDF document as reference:
http://j.mp/create-a-wordpress-theme

Uses this HTML page/package as a starting point:
http://bit.ly/create-a-wordpress-theme-demo-files

How to take a regular HTML page and turn it into a very simple WordPress Theme Package that you can use on any wordpress site. Uses Dreamweaver.

24 Comments on “Tutorial: How Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch (Basic Intro)”

  1. I usually don't give negative comments but I think your tutorial is misleading. If you try creating this theme you will find you can't edit your menu in the dashboard. You also will find you can't add widgets or plugins into your themes. Nor will you be able to customize the appears of your theme with wordpress.

  2. Thank you for the great video. Usually I have to look up another video to get all the info I need, but not this time. You covered all the basics to creating a WP theme and I thank you. 

  3. This is nice video for beginner to create own simple themes..Thank You

  4. Hey just a qeustion, now in the 'news' tab I would like the show the different categories i've made. What php tag / tags do I have to use for this?

  5. it would be good to have some instruction about images and broken links.  i.e. in page 9 of your scribd document you give: 

    <img src=" <?php bloginfo('template_directory');?> /images/myimage.jpg" /> 

    And I guess this goes into style.css – question is, where? on every image link? (show the world the shortcut?) :-)

  6. Perfect tutorial! Clear instructions, understood in one shot! Thanks buddy!

  7. Amazing!  Thanks so much for doing a lot of heavy lifting for newbies like me. Like other comments this is clear and concise.  Keep it going. 

  8. Fantastic! Clearly explained the core concept. Best video that i found for custom wp-theme development. Thank you again… and looking forward for more video lessons relevent to WordPress :p

  9. Usually the css files are placed inside a css subfolder, that is when designing a site, because at the end od the design you end up with a couple of css files.
    if the css subfolder is kept, wordpress complains saying
    "Broken theme.Template is missing."

    Is there a work around this issue?, and how to link the rest of css files a webite might have?

  10. hey ,if anyone else    trying to find out  

      try Greega Theme Design Guru (do a search on google )?  Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my co-worker got amazing results  with it.

     

  11. dude.. very good.. thanks for providing a pdf.. and very nice tutorial… 

  12. Thanks a lot .one of the best tutorials ever .About your voice nothing is wrong with it God has blessed you with the voice suitable to him if anyone has a problem let them take it up with him . 

  13. This is good.  I like the fact that you related this to an HTML website that uses HTML and CSS and then built on that replacing the traditional HTML/CSS methodology with WordPress methodology.  This provides context for someone who's familiar with HTML/CSS and wants to apply that knowledge to WordPress.  I wish you had made the PDF available for download as that document is a good reference as well.

    Thank you

  14. Good! I like it, and you give me some answers I was looking for at the beginning of your vid, thanks for sharing, you explained very well all the stuff involved, easy to understand, but one thing, not everybody has dreamweaver and actually, I don't like it, it would be more relevant if you could make it more plain!, without using any code generator, as dreamweaver. 
    Thanks again.

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