Starting WordPress Theme Development was presented in WordPress Meetup 2013 https://www.facebook.com/events/351785238261880 . This presentation is for people who want to start career in WordPress Theme Development. It covers some of the awesome WordPress Themes, What Makes a Theme, 5 Different Approaches to WordPress Theme Development, WordPress Theme Marketplaces, WordPress Plugin Marketplaces

1. WordPress
Theme Development
&
Starting
Beyond
WordPress
Theme Development

2. I’m Sakin Shrestha
WordPress Theme Developer
Business Consultant

5. What Makes a Theme
• PHP
• HTML
• CSS
• JS
• Images

6. Let’s look at some of the
Awesome
WordPress Themes

10. Approaches
to
WordPress Themes

11. Approaches
1. Customizing Theme
• Take any default theme from
WordPress.org
• Example: Twenty Twelve and
Twenty Ten
• Customize Layout, Functions and

13. Approaches
2. Parents/ Children
• Building child theme
• Ref:
http://themeshaper.com/2009/04
/17/wordpress-child-theme-
basics/

14. Child Theme “Mazeld” style.css
/*
Theme Name: Mazeld
Theme URI: http://ma.tt
Description: Look-alike of theme from photomatt.net circa 2005.
Author: matt
Version: 1.0
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: yellow, fixed-width, threaded-comments, translation-ready
Template: twentyten
*/
@import url('../twentyten/style.css');

16. Approaches
3. Theme Frameworks
• Building child theme from Theme
Framework
• It’s a library
• You can Define child theme
through style.css

17. 3. Theme Frameworks

18. Approaches
4. Starting from Scratch
• Required creating each individual
theme files like style.css,
header.php, index.php, footer.php,
sidebar.php, function.php and so
on.
• Ref:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_D

20. Approaches
5. Starter Themes
• Underscores
http://underscores.me/
• Bones
http://themble.com/bones/

23. What After Theme Development?
• Contribute to WordPress
• Add your theme in WordPress.org
Theme Repository

25. Sale Pro/Premium Theme
• On your Own Theme Shop

27. Sale Pro/Premium Theme
• On Theme Marketplace

32. Work Online in Freelance Marketplace
• Open Account
• Show the free theme portfolio in
WordPress.org and gain clients

33. WordPress Plugin Development
• Beyond WordPress Theme Development
• Try Plugin Development
• Process is similar to Theme Development

37. Questions?
Thanks
Sakin Shrestha
Blog: http://sakinshrestha.com
Email: sakin@catchinternet.com
Twitter: @sakinshrestha