Site redesign, step 3: creating your WordPress theme

Posted on August 26, 2012 | Categories: Technology

Remember, that your site will have a few distinct templates, such as:

  • Home page (in my case it’s the main blog page, with X latest posts)
  • Category page
  • Archive page (could use the same layout as category)
  • Search results page
  • Individual post page
  • About page and potentially other static pages
    And potentially many others, depending on how complex the site is.

In the previous step, I only coded a sample template for the home page. You’ll need to make sure you also have templates for the rest of your page types.

Here’s a great article explaining the anatomy of a WordPress theme

And a comprehensive resource from WordPress on building a theme

So in this step, I won’t be explaining a lot, as it mostly requires coding. Now let’s open up our text editor and get to it…

One Response to “Site redesign, step 3: creating your WordPress theme”

  1. Tanya Nam » Blog Archive » Site redesign, step 2: coding HTML/CSS Says:
    August 26th, 2012 at 8:48 pm

    [...] Next step: moving your code into WordPress templates and creating your theme [...]

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