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Romain
Romain

Reputation: 455

Wordpress, how to start with an empty theme?

I have been working on Wordpress for a month creating themes. Otherwise, when I'm starting a new project, I'm always starting with an existing theme that I am modifying.

What I want, is to clean perfectly a theme and add to it what I need for the website.

But, my Wordpress knowledge aren't enough to do it. So, I'm asking you if you know a great book, website etc, where they are explaining simply how to create a new theme (understand every features of Wordpress, explaining every functions in the functions.php file, how to add correctly Wordpress post content).

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 16990

Answers (6)

graphypro
graphypro

Reputation: 1

You can make WordPress themes from the scratch by following some methods

  1. By using Youtube, but that'll be not very professional
  2. By using Google, yes you will find many sites that will show you the process and this is efficient and free
  3. By using Udemy or Lynda, you will learn about the whole process with the necessary knowledge like the hierarchy of wordpress, tools & standards for wordpress etc.
  4. By using wordpress.org, this is most desirable and professional way of learning wordpress as this is the main place for all the things happening around the WordPress.

Upvotes: -4

Kamil
Kamil

Reputation: 13931

You can download simplest possible theme for wordpress here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/simplest

After you take a look at this and create some theme using this simple theme - you will better understand Wordpress Codex, and you can follow @markratledge suggestions about Codex.

Anyway, I decided to not read whole codex and im using this theme ("Simplest") as boilerplate for my themes.

Upvotes: 2

ignacioricci
ignacioricci

Reputation: 1276

You should check out Starkers by Elliot Jay Stocks:

It helped me out a bunch of times to start from scratch. It has the basic files and no CSS.

Upvotes: 1

Minqi
Minqi

Reputation: 99

the wordpress.org will be your best starting point, for your

(understand every features of Wordpress, explaining every functions in the functions.php file, how to add correctly Wordpress post content).

Upvotes: -1

ggdx
ggdx

Reputation: 3064

What I did was create all the files and save them in a folder, then upload them as needed. I copied them from this simple tutorial and although says its to create a designed theme, it has nothing but basic blank theme:

http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-build-a-custom-wordpress-theme-from-scratch

Upvotes: 2

markratledge
markratledge

Reputation: 17561

Romain asked:

...how to create a new theme (understand every features of Wordpress, explaining every functions in the functions.php file, how to add correctly Wordpress post content).

Start with the codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page which is

the online manual for WordPress and a living repository for WordPress information and documentation.

Upvotes: 2

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