This one was introduced to me by Scolls, it’s yet another tutorial for creating your very own Wordpress theme. You can find it here on Urban Giraffe. This tutorial is a little more detailed than the previous one I had read and it explains everything from location to style to functions. Everything. Which is of course very good, especially for beginners like me which can’t figure out one end from the other. There isn’t too much tech talk in the articles. And I can see that a lot of effort had been put in into creating this tutorial for us.

I think the main reason why I like this tutorial is that it explains clearly step by step the entire theme creation process. The authour doesn’t think that you know everything and he/she strives to give the reader details and explanations so that it gets less confusing as it goes on. Although I have a little understanding on this Wordpress theme creation, this tutorial does clear up some doubt I have with Wordpress. It even tells you how server-side PHP works! It comes in 4 parts and by the end of the fourth part, you should have nearly everything you need to create your very own theme for Wordpress. It starts with how the theme works, then followed by header and footer, next comes the sidebar and finally the content. This very smooth flow of the process makes understanding and working with Wordpress much easier.

Oh, the tutorial comes in the downloadable pdf format as well. But you need to pay for it. And you can even purchase a “professional” printed copy of the ebook.

And if you keep on browsing on this blog, you will find a lot of other information on Wordpress as well. They have several  articles on  how to make use of Wordpress like how to translate into other languages, how to separate comments and pings and so on. I think you will find it interesting to have a read. You can also download various Wordpress plugins from their site.  Some of these plugins are pretty useful to have.