Blog Project: Building a WordPress Theme
- Posted On: April 7th, 2007
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I'm going to start work soon on a theme for public release. As part of the theme building process I thought I'd do double duty and turn it into something of a blog project. Over the course of the theme design I'll share it's incremental development and take questions and suggestions for what to add to it.
The goal here is kind of two fold. First, I want to be able to release my first public free theme. Along the way, though, I wanted to cover some of the basics of theme design in the hopes of helping new bloggers customize and build their own personal theme.
If you're at all interested please leave me a note and be sure to follow along for the next few days.
To get started, every day (starting tomorrow) I'll be asking some questions about what you expect from a theme. This way I can get a good sense of what people want to see covered. If you want to kick it off with any suggestions please feel free to do so here. Thanks,
6 Responses to “Blog Project: Building a WordPress Theme”
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April 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
As shane says, it is easy to take an existing theme, change stuff and then release as something like X reloaded or X revisited or something! It is getting hard to find good themes among 1000s of duplicate themes.
- Jayson Joseph
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April 10th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Do you have any recommended decent sites to be looking at as a starter’s guide to CSS?
It’s something I’ve only ever dipped my toe in till now and currently just cannabalising what I’ve started with in the form of Everton’s theme, but am starting to figure certain things out, but wouldn’t know where the hell to start from scratch with it all.
- Zath
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April 10th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Zath,
Check this url for a couple “css cheat sheets.”
I went out and bought a CSS reference book but you can certainly find some great free stuff online. Let me know what you think of that cheat sheet.
- WildBil
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April 30th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Thanks Bill!
That looks good, I’ll probably have to bite the bullet and buy a book at some point, but shall try pick the basics online first.
Cheers!
- Zath
I built my theme by basically ripping apart a bunch of other themes, piecing things together, and learning along the way.
I think a lot of people do this. What I would really be interested in is cleaning up that code. So, showing a good way to organize a style sheet, when to use divs vs classes, etc would be really interesting.
… Basically a good solid foundation to design.
- Shane