How to Create a WordPress Theme – Interactive Guide

With a huge number of WordPress themes, both free and paid, it can be a challenge to find the one that’s just right for your website.

At WebHostingBuzz we understand that challenge of building your very own WordPress theme and so have come up with a step-by-step guide linking to the best tutorials on the web for each stage of the process.

The solution to all your template woes, our easy to use guide can be found here:  http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/guides/wordpress-theme/

Breaking the process down into 9 manageable stages, from planning to distributing, the experts will tell you everything you need to know to create your own theme.

Getting you off to a strong start, the planning stage prompts you to organise your initial ideas and concepts by writing them down to gain a clearer view of what you want from your theme and site. Deciding on the ‘must have’ aspects of your site at this stage will help you form a more concrete plan and allow you to progress to designing your theme.

The designing bit can be a fun task with the guide taking a look at typography, finding inspiration and picking out colours that will suit your theme. Once you’ve moved through this phase, the guide shows you how develop each of your pages in HTML and CSS, before installing a local webserver for a speedy and secure approach to theming.

The guide also encourages you to look more closely at WordPress as a whole, helping you to gain a better understanding of its structure before detailing how to download the framework of a blank WordPress theme to use as a blank canvas for your design.

With helpful tips on WordPress’ automatic features and how to avoid common WordPress mistakes and how to fix them, our guide offers up an array of knowledge and leaves no stone unturned.

The final hurdle of creating a theme is testing, which the guide shows you how to do in eight simple steps, then all that’s left is to decide whether you’d like to you distribute your theme.

As you can see, our guide is with you every step of the way; follow each stage and you’ll have your own professional WordPress theme in next to no time!

Let us know how you get on with creating your own theme in the comments below (powered by Facebook). We’d love to see what designs you’ve come up with.