Creating a theme

  • How long do you think it would take to build a custom theme? I have a website that I need to build into WordPress but it’s taking me forever. There is so much documentation that I keep hitting a brick wall whenever I think I’m making progress. So far all I’ve managed to do is create the basic look, but my images aren’t showing (don’t know why) and I’ve just tried to implement a custom menu and that doesn’t work either. I’m new to wordpress but I have looked at the basics with a dummy site but I didn’t realise how complicated building a theme would be.

    I don’t want to get a developer to do it as it will more than likely cost me a fortune, but if I can get a time estimate than at least I can go from there.

    Thanks for any advice.

    Harry

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    You can’t get a time estimate, I’m sorry. This is too vague. If you need help with something specific then we can try to answer that.

    Thread Starter harry_034

    (@harry_034)

    I suppose the two questions I have currently are:

    1) Why are my header images not showing?
    I have created the header.php files, referenced the images in the head under “pics/kaitlinHowardHomePicHeader.jpg” and also tried “/pics/kaitlinHowardHomePicHeader.jpg” and referenced the <?php get_header(‘headerHome’); ?> in the index file.
    They are saved in the theme directory on FTP in the “pics” folder.

    2) I am trying to create a custom menu. I took instructions from a Treehouse article but all I’m getting is the tail end of the code:
    ”)); ?>

    The code is as follows:

    <!–Left nav–>
    <div class=”col-md-4 col-sm-4″>
    <div class=”sidebar-nav”>
    <div class=”navbar navbar-default”>
    <div class=”navbar-header”><button class=”navbar-toggle” type=”button” data-toggle=”collapse” data-target=”.sidebar-navbar-collapse”>
    <span class=”sr-only”>Toggle navigation</span>

    </button></div>
    <div class=”navbar-collapse collapse sidebar-navbar-collapse”>
    <ul class=”nav navbar-nav”>

    <?php wp_list_pages(array(‘title_li’ => ”)); ?>

    <ul class=”dropdown-menu”>

    <ul class=”dropdown-menu”>

    </div>
    <!–/.nav-collapse –>

    </div>
    </div>
    </div>
    <!–Left nav ends–>

    Thanks,
    Harry

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