How To: Creating Your Own WordPress Theme

By Kyle Eslick on November 5th, 2007 | Filed Under How-To
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If you are looking for a way to generate more traffic and inbound links for your blog, and you have some web design talent, one of the best things you can do is contribute a few free WordPress themes to the WordPress community.

In order to focus on making your theme unique, I recommend starting out with a blank theme template. Jonathan Wold has created an excellent tutorial called How to Create Your Own WordPress Theme, in which he walks you through the basic setup of a generic WordPress theme. From there, you are then on your own to express your creativity and add some plugin integration for potential users of the theme.

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    • There Are 3 Responses So Far. »

    1. 1 K-IntheHouse
      Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 9:43 am

      Nice links! Here is a great cheatsheet for those playing with WordPress themes.

    2. 2 Kyle Eslick
      Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 10:21 am

      K - Thanks for the link, although check out this article written yesterday. :mrgreen:

      Get WordPress PHP Snippets with the WordPress Help Sheet

    3. 3 K-IntheHouse
      Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 10:32 am

      Oops, shouldn’t have jumped the gun when I saw that post! :wink:



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