Title: change wordpress theme
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# change wordpress theme

 *  [eskimopest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eskimopest/)
 * (@eskimopest)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-wordpress-theme/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digico-paris/)
 * (@digico-paris)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-wordpress-theme/#post-7664172)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eskimopest/)
 * (@eskimopest)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-wordpress-theme/#post-7664183)
 * tks =)
 * i’ll give it a try.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-wordpress-theme/#post-7664218)
 * Start with a good starter theme — don’t reinvent all the wheels
 * [https://wp-root.org/develop-debug/free-wordpress-starter-themes/](https://wp-root.org/develop-debug/free-wordpress-starter-themes/)
 * I almost always start with [http://underscores.me](http://underscores.me)

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