how to start learning to build themes

  • i have basic php knowledge and i want to learn how to build themes. is there a good free online tutorial? i do not want countless of pages of documentation. I want a tutorial that will explain things in detail step by step.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    My recommendation is twofold:

    First, download a copy of the _s theme from https://underscores.me to use on a development site. Fix up the CSS to get something that looks sorta decent.

    As you’re going through the code, work with the theme handbook at https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/

    As a newbie i would start to changing existing themes.
    Then i would take good things from another theme and add it to the current theme.
    Viola you have best of 2 things.

    Copy paste, delete, replace is a good simple method.

    I started with a blank Bootstrap theme and Googled tutorials. underscores is ok, but it has a lot of functions and stuff built in so it is not really blank, it just has no styles.

    I used bones as my starter and built on it from there.

    This was a few years ago and I have improved on it and added many new features.
    I agree that your best reference is here https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/
    but Google build a wordpress theme from scratch and jump in.

    In addition to some PHP you will need to be fluent in HTML and CSS and some JS will help.
    https://codeacademy.com can help you there.

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