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Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch

Building a blogA lot of people are martyrs and want to get their hands in the dirt and design their own WordPress Theme from scratch. That’s okay. I did that, and then got smarter. Let’s start with the smarter choice.

  • First, find a WordPress Theme architecture that you like, be it one or two sidebars, or no header, or whatever you want. Forget about the colors, graphics, and fonts. Just concentrate on the layout. If nothing pleases you, then I recommend you try the new Sandbox Theme, another great way to start your WordPress Theme from scratch.
  • Download a couple of Themes you like and put them through their paces on your test site. Do you like the way the single post looks different from the front page, category, and archive pages? If not, try another. If yes, then it’s time to start to work.
  • Copy your chosen Theme to a new folder with a different folder name under your wp-content/themes folder. Open the style.css style sheet file in a Text Editor and rename the header section at the top to something different, like “My Test Theme” or “Ripping and Tearing”. Just give it a different name. Depending upon how much you will end up modifying the Theme, you can either leave the author credit inside or not, it’s up to you and the copyright terms of the WordPress Theme.
  • A web page without CSS style sheetUpload the new Theme Folder to your website. From within the Administration Panels, under Presentation, find the new Theme and activate it. You now have a test Theme to work with.

If you aren’t worried about bandwidth on your website or your Internet connection, you can style your site right on the Internet. If you are worried, then use the “Sandbox” method.

Get familiar with your site’s layout and structure by checking the source code and the style sheet, and begin your modifications one at a time.

I recommend that you backup your test Theme folder frequently as you go, in case you make a big mess and you need to go back, but not to start over.

Determined to Start from Total Scratch

If you are determined to redesign your WordPress Theme from scratch, you probably already know how to do this. Still, I’m here to help WordPress users and so here are some things you need to know if you are going to design your WordPress Theme from scratch.

Get Firefox!One of the best tools recently developed for web page designers is found in the Firefox Internet Browser. Called the Firefox Web Developer Extension, it allows amazing WYSIWYG on the screen live editing of the style sheets of any web page. And a whole lot more. You can learn more about how to use this to style your WordPress Themes and find your problem CSS troublemakers in the article here on The Secret of Successful Editing of WordPress Themes.

You will also need a good text editor to edit the WordPress Templates. For a list of those recommended by WordPress users, see Text Editors in the WordPress Codex.

Also, seriously consider using the “Sandbox” method for designing your style sheet and Theme.

Here is a very simple step-by-step process to start to design your own WordPress Theme from scratch.

  • Using either the Default or Classic WordPress Themes, generate a test post in your browser.
  • CSS Stylesheet exampleCopy the ID and class selectors and HTML tags from the top to the bottom of the site into a Text Editor page. This is the list of the architectural features you can change, also known as your style sheet. You can also find a fairly complete listing of all the styles in most WordPress Themes on the in Site Architecture 1.5.
    • If necessary, add selectors to the sections lacking them, like each of the template tags that generate different lists within the sidebar and/or footer. These need to be added to the various modular template files within the test Theme folder.
    • Different tags may appear on different views of your test Theme. Be sure and check the pages generated by the front page, category, archives, search, single, and Page views to find more selectors and tags.
    • When you have your list finished, then save it and call it style.css, replacing the style sheet that came with the Theme.
  • Start applying styles to the various structural HTML tags, ID and class selectors within the style.css.

WordPress Theme Design Help

Here is a list of articles and resources you may find helpful when designing your WordPress Theme, from scratch or just for tweaking.

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32 Comments

  1. Scott
    Posted September 28, 2005 at 8:18 pm | Permalink

    Wow! Amazing post!

  2. Jon
    Posted October 21, 2005 at 2:52 pm | Permalink

    There’s something wrong with a link above:
    Meet Them - Benefits of Compliance with Web Standards

    There’s a title, but no href.

  3. Angela
    Posted November 3, 2005 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

    This post helps a lot… Thanks!

  4. lore
    Posted May 1, 2006 at 1:38 am | Permalink

    I’m currently setting up a new site using wordpress software. This is exactly what I’m looking for in helping me start from scratch (or working with the tweaking, but even starting from scratch is more useful to understand functions).

    Great post, it’ll be very helpful!

  5. Avinash
    Posted October 28, 2006 at 9:36 am | Permalink

    It was an amazing read.

    Thanks!

  6. Widdop Family
    Posted November 23, 2006 at 5:47 pm | Permalink

    Its not that hard to do, I matched my site design with a custom made template in about an hour.

  7. Han
    Posted November 23, 2006 at 7:13 pm | Permalink

    I really dont know why the default themes are so complicated! From what people have said to me it puts them off wordpress :S It certainly used to confuse the hell out of me!

  8. GM
    Posted November 24, 2006 at 10:22 am | Permalink

    I am already in the process of developing my own custom WordPress theme so your resource list sure is going to come in handy. Bookmarked straight away for future reference.

  9. Matt Jeppsen
    Posted March 5, 2007 at 9:15 pm | Permalink

    An excellent resource, thanks Lorelle!

    If those new to theming are looking for great color schemes and swatches, might want to check out Adobe Kuler. It’s free, easy, and you can make it generate some incredible complementary color combinations. I found a detailed video tutorial on how to use Kuler you might want to read.

  10. deadhippo
    Posted March 10, 2007 at 1:12 am | Permalink

    Thanks, I was looking for something like this. I’ll post again if I manage to get around to it.

  11. shomazta
    Posted April 17, 2007 at 8:37 am | Permalink

    i love what you’ve done. thanks for taking the time to put this together =)

  12. Sam Adams
    Posted April 20, 2007 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

    I was over at WP site and couldn’t find any themes, is there any WP themes viewer any where?!
    Thanks

  13. Lorelle VanFossen
    Posted April 20, 2007 at 11:37 pm | Permalink

    WordPress Themes are found on the WordPress Theme Viewer.

  14. SEO Tips
    Posted April 21, 2007 at 8:15 am | Permalink

    Thanks thanks thanks thanks SO SO MUCH :D

    I love it - and hopefully gonna make a nice theme soon :)

  15. Sean Simpson
    Posted April 21, 2007 at 10:16 am | Permalink

    Hey I did a search for this very subject and found you. Great site BTW. I’m looking for a nice foundation for a three column layout. Is there any I could find that do not have tons of code I need to sift through. I’m really looking for the foundation bare nakid code with no other styling other than whats needed for wordpress to work so I could make a clean design.

    Any assistance would be appreciated.
    Sean

  16. Presell
    Posted July 23, 2007 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

    All right then … can anyone tell me please, how can I get content from themes.wordpress.net ? I’m working at this moment on my theme but how can I be sure that I did all styles.

    Cheers - Matt.

  17. Lorelle VanFossen
    Posted July 23, 2007 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    I’m not sure I understand your question. To download a Theme from the Themes Viewer, simply download it. To check to see if you styled everything you want styled, and not everything needs to be styled, look. Check out the design yourself to see if each of the various page views “look” like you want them to look.

  18. CatherineL
    Posted August 4, 2007 at 2:34 am | Permalink

    Thank you so much - I’ve been looking for this info for days (just goes to show how great Google search really is), and I’ve made a complete mess of editing my theme. I’d almost given up on the idea of being able to have a decent wordpress theme ever. Now, I’m going to print out your instructions. Thank you.

  19. Cesar Noel
    Posted August 24, 2007 at 1:21 am | Permalink

    Very nice detail tutorial

  20. Yuriy
    Posted September 5, 2007 at 12:17 pm | Permalink

    Creating individual Pages is the most interesting from all this … Thanks.

  21. Law
    Posted December 23, 2007 at 10:08 am | Permalink

    Useful information. Good website!

  22. Rules
    Posted February 15, 2008 at 1:37 am | Permalink

    can i do it for blogger also?

  23. Lorelle VanFossen
    Posted February 15, 2008 at 9:58 am | Permalink

    @ Rules:

    It’s HTML. It will work with anything web design.

  24. kevin
    Posted March 20, 2008 at 11:10 am | Permalink

    This was a very helpful tutorial. Really appreciate you taking the time to share this information with new wp designers.

  25. Takuan Daikon
    Posted March 26, 2008 at 11:41 pm | Permalink

    I want to thank you for being such a valuable resource for WordPress tips, especially with the many tips and links on how to create a theme for your blog. I just created my first WordPress theme, and what I’ve read here (and linked to from here) was very helpful. My theme is not great, I’m no graphic artist or professional designer, but I am feeling very satisfied for having done it myself.

    Thanks again!

  26. Lorelle VanFossen
    Posted March 27, 2008 at 5:46 am | Permalink

    @ Takuan Daikon:

    You are welcome. Remember, a blog is always in a state of evolution and fixing. It’s never done. :D

    Good luck!

  27. Walter
    Posted March 27, 2008 at 1:06 pm | Permalink

    Does anybody know if there is a way to integrate JEDIT into firefox CSS Editor. That way you would get the visual beauty of JEDIT combined with “on the fly” CSS editing add-on of firefox.

  28. Pinki
    Posted March 28, 2008 at 2:06 am | Permalink

    hiiii
    thanks for sharing
    i need it ………… !!

  29. Deden
    Posted April 6, 2008 at 12:13 am | Permalink

    as usual, great article man.

    Now i have so much reference for wordpress. I’m newbie with wordpress. Please see my blog and give your comment about my blog.

    Thanks
    Deden from indonesia

  30. Manny J at Ngarag
    Posted April 17, 2008 at 4:37 am | Permalink

    Wow! This is the stuff I need for my new blog!

    I have bookmarked your blog already.

    Thank you so much again!

  31. Steveorevo
    Posted June 2, 2008 at 3:21 am | Permalink

    Can I add my shameless plug? I designed a plugin for Dreamweaver that ‘enlightens Dw’ about how to render WordPress theme template tags. The result is a WYSIWYG Design View for WordPress themes. You can navigate code visually just by clicking in Design View.

    Its a lightweight extension, works offline, no server needed. It also provides code hints in Dw’s Code View. Its great for making minute changes without having to go rounds with a server. Reflects CSS changes and most template tag parameters instantly in Design View. Since Design View is just a layout approximation it doesn’t beat a server+browser but it sure is faster to get stuff done. ’specially for those that are visual like me!

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    Posted June 26, 2008 at 1:48 am | Permalink

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  75. By OpenKS » Blog Archive » Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch on 07 Jan 2008 at 12:09 am

    [...] I found this article and I want to read it.  I am seeing more and more sites that use WordPress as not only their blog, but the main site.http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/28/designing-a-wordpress-theme-from-scratch/ [...]

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    [...] article worth looking at is at Lorelle on WordPresswhere she gives a brief summary of designing a WordPress theme from scratch.  She mentions the [...]

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    [...] Slowly I was getting more and more experience, and yet again I was unsatisfied with my site. The culprit this time was the theme, which turned out to be really messy as far as coding is concerned. My knowledge of coding html and css had grown, but wasn’t up there to really understand it. Yet I got the idea in my mind to design a theme from scratch (even after I found Lorelle advising against it). [...]

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