WEB DESIGNER WALL A wall of design ideas, web trends, and tutorials Building Custom WordPress Theme Nov 17, 2008 • Tutorials ! wordpress This is the Chapter II of the Comp lete WordPress Theme Guide series. This chapter will show you how to build a custom WordPress theme. Although the Codex site provides very good documentations on how to create a theme, but I find it too complicated for a beginner. In this tutorial, I will explain the basics of how WordPress theme work s and sh ow you how to con vert a st atic HTML template into a theme. No PHP skill is required, but you need Photoshop and CSS skills to create your own design. 1. The Blog Frontend Bef ore you start , l et's take a look at the WordPr ess default theme and see how it is struct ure d. Take note of t he element s (h eader, post t itle, s earch form, naviga tion, footer, etc.). Default Frontpage (index.php)