Hi all

 

I have been using wordpress for around a year but I am currently trying to develop my own wordpress theme. I was wondering does anybody have alot of previous experience doing this and if so would you be able to give me a couple of pointers on how to go about doing this or point in the direction of a couple of good tutorials?

 

Thanks in advance

Here are some good tutorials I found : http://www.antsmagazine.com/2009/04/250-super-cool-wordpress-tutorials-newbie-to-pro/

Edited August 13, 201115 yr by hero325

Although tutorials are great at getting an overview, I always feel taking another theme, such as Starkers is a great way to work out exactly how everything is put together. Have a read of : http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy which explains how the different files interact and which files are loaded when viewing a site.

 

Also when you start coding, the best place to refer to is the WordPress Codex, it contains documentation on nearly all the template tags so you can't go wrong.

As asek said above, always have another theme to refer to at first. Don't copy past from it but use it as a guideline to assess what goes where and why. The new WP 2011 theme is a good one to go through as it shows all the latest methods of calling functions relevant to the newest version of Wordpress.

The new WP 2011 theme is a good one to go through as it shows all the latest methods of calling functions relevant to the newest version of Wordpress.

 

The only problem with using the Twenty Eleven theme is it uses a lot of custom functions to create excerpts, titles etc. For a beginner, it will make things a lot more complicated, maybe after you get to grips with the basics, use the Twenty Eleven theme to possibly make your own base theme.

The only problem with using the Twenty Eleven theme is it uses a lot of custom functions to create excerpts, titles etc. For a beginner, it will make things a lot more complicated, maybe after you get to grips with the basics, use the Twenty Eleven theme to possibly make your own base theme.

 

Fair point.

I feel that Starkers isn't full enough to give a new starter an idea of what goes in to creating a WP theme (but that's fair enough as it is supposed to be 'Barebones').