change wordpress theme

  • eskimopest

    (@eskimopest)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi all,

    i’m new to wordpress and wanted to ask a question or two.
    1. is there a correct way to change a theme to fit an outside design? i have a photoshop design and wanted to experiment makeing it in wordpress.
    2. is it best practice to make your own php functions so that you can pull database contents and displaying it as you want?

    like i said, im new to wordpress and already see inumerous ways to achieve what i want, just wanted to know what is the best way to achieve that.

    thanks in advance =)

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  • Digico Paris

    (@digico-paris)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    Generally speaking:

    1) make your own theme from photoshop files, it will learn you how the mechanics works with the few php files that are used in each theme

    2) some use frameworks, some use vanilla, wordpress is really “as you want” so there is no “uber” solution, to me if you know a little php, it’s faster to learn than twig or smarty “so called” template engines because in WP, everything is done with real things (PHP, JS, eventually some other things, you call as you want – but no middleware you call what you want).

    3) call your theme mytheme and upload it to wp-content/themes, try and test
    🙂

    have fun with wp

    Thread Starter eskimopest

    (@eskimopest)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    tks =)

    i’ll give it a try.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Start with a good starter theme — don’t reinvent all the wheels

    https://wp-root.org/develop-debug/free-wordpress-starter-themes/

    I almost always start with http://underscores.me

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