How do you make a Word Press theme? I see there are many people making a new Theme for Word Press here on DP. Is there a tutorial you can read to learn how to make them? Is it mostly graphic or code? What code just PHP? Do they copy another template and just change the pictures? I see some template already have Plug in or different coding inside is that difficult? Is there a standard template that you start from? What does a Template cost to make about? Do you need to update the Theme every time WP update? Thanks I really appreciate some good answers
There is a pretty good tutorial that I learnt from here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development I think the themes sold on DP vary from being handcoded from the start, to current themes being hacked at and re-sold.
You could also try this: http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/ Don't know if it'll be any good.
personally I just use existing themes and redo them until I get the effect I want. I don't have time to re-write the dictionary
Same here. If you get me in the ball park, I can"Hack" the rest until I get the desired results. I mean it's all basically the same. 1 column, 2 column, left side, right side. What really makes it is the header, the colors, configuring the layout, and the plugin's. I took this theme, and made it into this theme, and I'm pretty happy with it (Not done "Hacking" it yet though)
Themes are copyrighted just the same as any other creation, so you've got to be careful in case the original designer gets upset.
Thats what i mean there must be some open source one that you can take and change from? I mean Hemingway is a good one and then some one made some other popular flower site of it But there was no problem are they not all OS?
I usually use one of the generic ones like Kubrick as a start and write a CSS stylesheet from scratch. No point reinventing the wheel; The underlying PHP is what I want to preserve, as the structure is great. I wrote a custom script which ensures my footer links can't be removed without sodding up the whole design. It's a bit mean but I spent hours crafting it, so I deserve the backlinks. If the user won't give me those backlinks, they can chip away at someone else's design.
No i think thats cool to keep the link back. Maybe people should slow down and not sell like 5 links but 1 - 3 links i think is ok. Did you write a php script for that? Like to share?