WordPress is a great platform for newbies and advanced developers and designers. For newbies, you can find hundreds of WordPress tutorials to help you out. WP is great because you can install WordPress and find a great theme to get started. For developers and designers, you can design a full fledged WordPress site from a vision. Whether you are a beginner interested in developing WordPress themes or you have a decade under your belt, these following tutorials will help you.
Each of these articles gives you a step by step tutorial so it’s easy to follow.
How to Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial
This tutorial will walk you through the 11 step process of building a WP theme from scratch. Ian Stewart will be teaching you what you need to know about theme development. The theme you will be creating is search engine optomized, incorporates smart default CSS layouts and everything else in a WP theme.
How to Code a WordPress 3.0 Theme from Scratch
WordPress 3.0 was introduced about a year ago and incorporated some new features. This tutorial shows exactly how to code a WP theme with the newest version in mind.
Developing Your First WordPress Theme
WP Tuts shows us how to develop a new WordPress theme. This is a thorough 3 day walk thru. This may be the most detailed of this list because it explains each element of a WordPress theme in depth.
How to Build a WordPress Theme from Scratch
With some HTML and CSS skills, you can create your WP template from scratch with this tutorial from Developer Drive. The tutorial walks you through each element of a WP theme.
How to Build a Basic Portfolio WordPress Theme
Line 25 and Chris Spooner shows us how to make an a very attractive, yet simple portfolio site from scratch. Not only does he walk us through the coding aspect of the theme but in the prior series, he shows us how to design the concept in Photoshop.
Designing for WordPress: Complete Series & Downloads
CSS Tricks is one of the best sites if you are looking to make designing a career. Chris Coyer shows us how to develop an attractive theme from the ground up.
How to Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch
Another tutorial from the Envato network. This step by step tutorial was written in 2008 but still shows us the basics of a WordPress theme. Although it is slightly outdated, it will give you a good foundation to theme development.
Building a Custom WordPress Theme
This is another tutorial that has been hangin’ around since ’08. I like this tut because it explains the very basic theme development. Any newbie developer should start with a tutorial like this.
Create a Typography Based WordPress Blog Theme
Another great tutorial from Line 25. This one shows us how to code up a theme that is text and typography rich. This tutorial assumes no images and only text. Pretty nifty stuff.
How to Build a WordPress CMS Theme
A talented coder and writer, Amber Weinberg shows us how to create a WordPress theme in a multi part tutorial. She explains very well from the start about WordPress and it’s functional parts.
