WordPress Customization
By Justin Laing2008-01-09
Making Your New Theme
- Find a theme you want to base your new theme off of. A good place to start is the default theme, but you may also want to just tweak another theme that’s closer to the look/feel you are going for.
- Copy the existing theme to a new directory in your themes directory for example if I was making a theme called “webdesign_meetup” I might copy the “default” directory into a new directory called “webdesign_meetup”.
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In your new theme directory edit the style.css file. You should see something
like this in that file:
/*
Theme Name: WordPress Default
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: The default WordPress theme based on the famous Kubrick.
Version: 1.6
Author: Michael Heilemann
Author URI: http://binarybonsai.com/
*/ - Edit the theme information. This is the information that will show up under Presentation -> Theme in the administrator.
- Go into the WordPress administrator and change your current them to the new one you just created.
- Now you can start customizing and see the affects in real time on your site!
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Originally posted on Makebeta
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