Getting Started

One of the best things about using WordPress is its customizability, there is a lot of range of support from the community. That support comes with a number range of plugins and themes that are being developed where we can pick what theme we would like to use for our website and also plugins that will empower more of our site functionality.

A WordPress theme changes the design of your website, often including its layout. Changing your theme changes how your site looks on the front-end, i.e. what a visitor sees when they browse to your site on the web. There are thousands of free WordPress themes in the WordPress.org Theme Directory, though many WordPress sites use custom themes.

• WP Themes
• Youtube/LevelUpTuts – Customizing WordPress

List of Top 4 WordPress Theme of 2021

Here are lists of top WordPress Theme of 2021

WP Astra Theme - Create Beautiful and Lightning-fast WordPress Theme (Review 2021)

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Enfold Theme - Easily Create A Multipurpose Website With Stunning Theme (Review 2021)

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Developing a WordPress Theme

There are some cases where we want to develop a WordPress theme, either by developing it from scratch or just modifying the current theme.

Base Theme / Parent Theme

A base theme/parent theme is a complete theme that includes all of the required WordPress template files and assets for the theme to work. All themes – excluding child themes – are considered parent themes. It acts as a parent for the child theme, it provides based styles and scripts that will then can be customized within a child theme.

Here are some of the resources that you can use if you want to develop your theme from scratch :

• WP Developer/Theme Handbook – Getting Started
• WP Developer/Theme Handbook – Child Theme

Child Theme

Child themes are add-on themes that allow you to change small aspects of your site’s appearance while still maintaining the look and functionality of your theme.

Child themes inherit the look and feel of the parent theme and all of its functionality, but can be used to make modifications to any part of the theme.

This way, the customizations are kept separate from the parent theme file. Using a child theme allows you to upgrade the parent theme without affecting the customizations you have made to your site.

Pros of the child theme:

• Make your modifications portable and replicable;
• Keep customization separate from parent theme functions;
• Allow parent themes to be updated without destroying your modifications;
• Allow you to take advantage of the effort and testing put into the parent theme;
• Save on development time since you are not recreating the wheel; and
• Are a great way to start learning about theme development.

Learn more How to Create a Child Theme in this article

The following video tutorial will guide you to learn step by step how to customize WordPress. Let’s watch!