If you need to change your theme templates, I suggest you start by reviewing Theme_Development.
Are you just looking to edit the text of the pages? To do that you can either go to Posts or Pages (posts show up as “blog posts” in the loop, pages are static pages).
If you are looking for something to pick out colors and fonts and etc. etc. then you might want to look into premium theme options that have that capability.
Also, be careful as to where you get your themes – some sites release “free themes” but they are full of spam/malware or are encrypted so you can’t edit them at all!
Hi thanks for your replies.
I am not familiar with .php so changing the code for me is out of the question.
Maybe I should simply download some .php editing software that has the look and feel of dreamweaver, where you can easily swop over images, adding text to alt tags etc.
Hi,
Maybe I should just drop using php themes altogether and use .css built themes which i s waht I am more familiar with?
All WordPress themes use both CSS and PHP.
Okay thanks for letting me know.
Is there a plugin available in wordpress so that if I make any cahnges to the .php code I can at least view the page in WordPress which seems disabled in some of the wordpress themes?
Sorry – no. Perhaps you could look at installing WordPress locally so that you could test all of your changes out on a local server first?
