Tumblr theme into a WP theme

Unfortunately, there’s not really a “hint” to give you about this kind of thing – it’s quite complex to make a non-WP site into a WP site and really does require knowledge of coding.

It might be easier to start with a “tumblr style wordpress theme” and modify the appearance to what you want – are any of them close at all?

EDIT – also should have included this link –

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

The header.php and footer.php do more than just add content to your site. They contain critical WordPress functions needed to ensure that the theme works effectively.

In a pre-existing theme, yes. If you were building your own theme, you could possibly roll the header and footer into a single index.php template file but I think you’d find the structure of that one, large, file quite difficult to wrangle compared to a more modular approach.

I think that, if you’re not reasonably comfortable with creating/modifying themes, creating a single template theme would be rather overwhelming. It would be better if you started with a decent basic theme – like v – forked it and started customising it to suit your needs bit by bit. It really is the best way to learn.

No problem. You may also want to bookmark Theme Development for future reference.

Check out the Montezuma theme. You can customize the appearance of each section of the page pretty easily by editing the virtual subtemplates. For example, if you don’t want a header to appear, just clear out the contents of the header.php virtual subtemplate. The get_header() function still gets called from the main templates, it’s just that nothing appears visually in the header if you clear out the header subtemplate. Add a sidebar to the left, to the right, two sidebars to the left, whatever you want. And you should be able to drag over a menu widget into a sidebar. The only thing is that you’ll have to learn how to edit the virtual PHP templates, but it’s not hard once you get the hang of it. The virtual CSS files also make it very easy to change the appearance of just about any element.

Here’s a quick example on a sandbox page of mine that took me less than a minute to remove the header.

I’m not a developer of the theme, or otherwise connected to it, I am just a very happy user of the theme, and I appreciate it enough where I try to help others out as much as I can. Sorry if I’m overly exuberant about it.