Custom theme

  • I wont to create a custom theme with custom template pages, custom post pages etc. I also wont to put slider plugin in it, translate plugin…

    Question is, how this can be done by allowing the users to install only WordPress without having to import the database to enable all of this stuff.

    I mean, all the user is needed to do is to run 5min installation and to put theme in themes folder and activate it without having to mess with database?

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  • If you mean a premade build of WordPress, I can advise you 3 ideas :

    – Vagrant (you can easily script setup)
    – Docker (plenty of builds + easy to script)
    – XAMPP (provides a way to do it in Windows GUI, but default DB is now MariaDB)

    Depending on OS you need, you could also use NullSoft installer, to make your own package on Windows. Anyways, you could also think of some local setup to automatically go to a given web server/VPS, vagrant or docker are perfect for that end.

    Thread Starter jarilo80

    (@jarilo80)

    Thank You Digico, I work in XAMPP and upload files with Filezilla, but what I mean is that everything that you put in wordpress need a database. Everything is written in there. I want to create a theme that is simple to install and that anyone can install it without working with databases.
    what are the possibilities of such theme which do not have to use anything that requires work with database, or is it posible?
    Examples are: twentyfifteen, twentyfourteen and themes that can be simply istalled…

    I’ve never heard of a theme that requires messing with a database…

    You’ll always need to create a database to get WordPress running, but the theme shouldn’t need any extra work on the database.

    You might want to give the Theme Handbook a read. It’ll sow you how WordPress themes are constructed:
    https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/

    Thread Starter jarilo80

    (@jarilo80)

    Thank you Jacob for the link.
    If I put slider, plugins, custom pages in the theme than I need to export database so I can use it on a different computer to look same as on mine.
    Also need to copy whole wordpress folder that I have installed on first computer and copy it on the second computer htdocs folder and import database…
    Isn’t it?

    Thread Starter jarilo80

    (@jarilo80)

    OK, here is a simpler question:

    Can I use slider plugin in my custom theme and than just use that theme on another wordpress installation as a new theme ( copy paste that theme folder in another themes folder ). Would slider still work?

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