New theme or Customise?

  • Hi All,

    I am new to the wordpress development.

    as I begin to search to find a suitable theme for my website, I realized that most of free theme needs to be customized in order to suit into my design. unfortunately after I looked up the code, I was totally frustrating to understand it.

    Would you be able to help direct me what should I do.
    Should I continue to understand the code or create a new theme dev from scratch?

    Thanks guys

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  • If you are new to WordPress, I would definitely go with an existing theme first, and customize it from there. There are certain “best practices” that are not fully documented, and even the one’s that are documented are hard to find if you don’t know what to search for.

    Based on an existing theme you can learn pretty quickly, how things are done, and maybe later for your next design overhaul you’ll be ready for starting a theme from scratch.

    Get a very well coded and documented theme, if you plan on modifying and learning on it!

    One more thing – before you start customizing a theme, check out:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    Hi tombradev

    I would advise you not to start by trying to customise a theme. You mentioned yourself that the code frustrated you.

    So it would be better to find a theme that comes really close to the design layout that you want, and just use it as it is. Otherwise you could delay your site tinkering with code.

    If you are really interested in learning about WordPress development, start with WPyogi’s suggestion. If you’re building your own site, look for a matching design and go from there.

    Good luck

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