Customizing wordpress themes at first is a hard task in your mind. You see all of this code and you need to figure out what makes the cms work and what is filler design.

When you are starting with a custom design that you created with photoshop and constructed with notepad or dreamweaver you can start with a blank wordpress theme then you will be happy knowing that the code involved is minimal. You just have to copy and paste the php code into your template within the right areas.

You also have many resources to work with including the theme docs, also known as template tags, on wordpress.org itself. These are just small bits of php code that tells wordpress what to display on your design template.

In addition to the standard tags you will want to make sure you widgetize your theme so you can easily add functionality to your blog site using the administration rather than chopping through code in the future. Be sure to style your widgets accordingly or it will look different from your design. You can find the styling for the widgets in the wp-includes/widgets.php file. You will notice an area where it says before widget and after widget. This is where your widget calls the style from via classes in your style.css file.

If all else fails and you get confused, we currently develop custom wordpress themes for a mere $350.00 so don’t be afraid to ask (if you are reading this at a much later date then this price may have moved up).

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