If you are more of a designer than a developer than it can be pretty daunting to learn how to create a WordPress theme. I find the best way to do this is to work off of another creation. A great example is the default Kubrick WordPress theme.
The other way to easily learn how to create a WordPress theme is to download one of our blank themes. The best part of our blank themes is they are released under the GPL license. Which means, you are able to use our blank themes for personal and commercial projects.
Once you learn the basics of creating a WordPress theme you can go deeper into the science and learn how to take advantage of conditional tags as well as custom fields. We’ll talk more about that in another post.
Lastly, here are the download links for our blank WordPress themes:
Our blank WordPress themes have been turned into one. Check out ET-Starter.
If these themes are meant to help teach theme development, my suggestion is to add lots of comments to the theme files in order to help the would be theme developers understand the portions of code and their purpose.
Thanks for the tip Mark. (also, thanks for stopping by)
I’ll make those suggested changes.
First, thank you for all of your hard work. I just have one quick question; are these themes all widget ready?
Thanks again
Yup, they are all widget ready.
Some of the most clean, elegant and sophisticated designs I’ve come across. Nice work.
Thank you very much great job!
I’m using the 3-column theme. I have some questions.
1. In long posts there is shown only the first page, the other part totally disappeared. How can be it fixed?
2. The using of widgets in sidebars also causes a disappearing of its content (category,links,pages) and shows only the widget (for example, polls).
3. It is impossible to change header image through the Custom Image Header (Design).
There is used WP 2.6.
I would be very grateful if you could help to fix these problems.
Thanks in advance.
I really appreciate these, I am a designer and WordPress Challenged, thanks so much for the work and a great starting point!
Very usefully for a noobie designer like me!
Thanks and greetings from Italy
any chance a matching blank bbpress theme is out there?
tia,
g
@Greg,
yup, I do plan on releasing matching blank themes for bbPress. I’ll try to release them this month, if not, look for them in October over at Theme Terminal.
Was wandering if this bbPress theme was released yet? I’d really appreciate it if I could find out. I tried searching for it, but couldn’t find anything yet…
i´m wondering too.. but about Joomla.. are u gona make same kind of “ready to use” 2 and 3 col blank templates for Joomla? i know theres many “skeletons” for Joomla, but not like these “bold on” solutions
I’m not really planning on getting into Joomla development.
The bbPress themes are gradually being released. You can find them here.
Yeah would be cool if you decided to get into joomla if your interested in cms. That said I like those bbpress themese Nate.