Comments on: Customize Your Own WordPress Theme

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:28:15 +0000

branding is one aspect; how does one feed headlines from a wordpress blog into an existing NON-php site?

Can’t find any straightforward suggestions on this one….

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:18:03 +0000

I love this post, as it explains the basics of a WordPress theme in a simple and clear manner. Now, I have a better understanding on WordPress theme, and I think I can start customizing soon!

By: GoldeN

GoldeN — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:37:26 +0000

Ya! its really helpful for us. I also had customized one of my theme based on some valuable tips from this post.

Thanks a lot all of you guyz.

By: Toronto Web Developer

Toronto Web Developer — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:59:52 +0000

Really great points here. Thanks!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:42:37 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I figured it out…it was in the CSS :/

Thank you!!!

By: SPDworks

SPDworks — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:24:15 +0000

We have a huge mess going at this point, with various platforms for both blogging and website design. WordPress was my first thought for blog building, but the other business owners were already locked into a Yahoo! merchant account, which remained quite antiquated until recently, when they (Yahoo!) moved to make WordPress.com an option for existing merchant account holders. Therefore, once I found this out, I began the process of building a small blog for one of the branches of the business.

Pressed for time (no pun intended,) and, with a then, current, prohibiting by Yahoo! of upgrading to the latest WP version, I opted to hard code the whole thing in basic HTML. It looks ok, but now, the owner finally wants to add a new post, and now the merchant account finally urges upgrading to the latest WP version (currently 2.8.4 to 3.0.2) meaning there’s a better chance to integrate a cool theme to the whole thing… finally. Which sent me looking on what’s to be needed to make this happen, without a lot of hassle, and without risk of losing the existing hard-coded pages of the original blog. That’s how I found your helpful pages. Thanks for sharing them.

Now, if I can only figure out how your info will assist me in converting this WP blog into something much nicer for the owner. Of course, that does nothing for the Joomla site, or the huge WordPress.org setup of the granddaddy of all sites for the business, already in place, but completely not ready for prime time viewing.

Did I mention it was all a huge mess?

Thanks again, and hopefully I can implement your strategies to make this WP move to a new theme as painless as possible.

By: Alphonsus Isusu

Alphonsus Isusu — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:51:34 +0000

Thanks for providing this tips. I will help me a great deal on my wordpress blogs.

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By: Vandelay Website Design

Vandelay Website Design — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:50:10 +0000

Hi Danielle,
The index.php file should contain just the main content area of your site. Then you’ll insert the call to get the header, sidebar, and footer.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:02:20 +0000

I’m so close to getting this I know it…do I save the wireframe of my website in the index? Or do I call JUST the index.php in my new wireframe I made that matches my website?

Help!