Theme (WordPress)
In WordPress, a theme provides presentation and style rules for the WordPress content.
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Description
A theme is a set of files which tells WordPress how to display content from the WordPress database.
A theme contains one or more WordPress template files.
Using themes
See Using themes Using themes @ codes.wordpress.org.
Standard themes
Several standard themes are included with WordPress.
Downloading new themes
Thousands of free and commercial themes are available.
Child themes
A child themes overrides properties of a parent themes.
This is useful for modifying an existing theme.
Custom themes
Custom themes allow you to make WordPress sites than look like anything.
Any web page which you can make in HTML (and CSS, and JavaScript), you can make a theme which looks and acts the same.
A custom theme combines your HTML with the necessary WordPress-related PHP.
Much of this PHP can be implemented by beginners using copy-and-paste.
Requirements include:
- Some specifici knowledge about the structure of WordPress themes and templates
- Online documentation is available
See Theme development @ codex.wordpress.org
Favorite themes
My favorite themes include:
See also
- WordPress custom theme examples
- Extensibility
- Static home page (WordPress)
- WordPress
- WordPress child theme
- WordPress sidebar
- WordPress template file
- WordPress template hierarchy
- WordPress widget
External links
- Theme development @ codex.wordpress.org
- How to create a basic WordPress theme?
- Ultimate WordPress theme tutorial
- Making the Perfect WordPress theme @ code.tutsplus.com
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