User Guide

CREATING YOUR OWN THEMES

It’s always nice to have your own theme rather than share it. Motion, for

example, has been downloaded well over 5,000 times. Also, you will want your

website to look fairly specific to you.

If you are a commercial company, you will certainly want to have a website that

matches your corporate branding for sure.

This is a more advanced topic, and covered in detail in the Advanced

User Guide, you can skip this if you like!

There are essentially two ways to create a

theme

This will depend on how technical you are. Are you a web developer, or want to

learn (and have a lot of spare time to do so)?

Creating your own themes

This is out of scope for this guide. If you want to create your own, bear in mind

that you will need to be reasonably proficient at:

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HTML

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CSS (Stylesheets) - using DIV’s for layout, for example

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Graphic design (depending on how much graphic work is required)

You will also need to have at least a reasonable understanding of:

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PHP

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Using MySQL databases

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How websites “work”

WordPress 3 User Guide" Chapter 10: Themes