Custom theme development in wordpress

    By: Manu
    3 years ago

    WordPress is a popular CMS (Content Management System). If you have a WordPress website. I believe at any point in time you might have wondered how we can create a custom theme.

    So out of the box, WordPress provides us few free themes and we can even download more free themes if we want but what if you want to add some custom features to your theme for your business or any project you have innovative thoughts in mind.


    Let's see how we create a theme from scratch

    So WordPress has all themes stored in the "wp-content/themes" folder. In the same directory, you can create a folder and give that folder name as your theme name. So let's say we want to create a theme called "sky". So folder should be created as "wp-content/themes/sky".

    Defining a theme

    To create a basic theme you need 3 files "index.php", "style.css", and "screenshot.png". In the style.css file, we can define theme details as theme version, theme author, etc.

    have a look

    /*
    Theme Name: Sky
    Author: Manu
    Author URI: https://zarx.biz
    Version: 1.0
    Description: Awesome Theme
    */
    // More options can be added here as given above
    

    Check our Video guide for step by step explanation