Creating your own WordPress theme is really just taking your regular HTML website and converting it to a WordPress theme, making it compatible with the WordPress blogging software.

Learning how to convert an HTML theme to WordPress is also a great task to learn if you would like to take your current HTML website or boutique and create a matching WordPress theme so that your Internet Business can also have a blog!

In this tutorial series we will cover the simple steps you will need to take in order to convert an HTML template to a WordPress theme.

Step 1: Set Up Your Files

The first step to creating a WordPress theme is setting up the theme files on your computer.

First you will want to create the main folder that will hold all your theme files. This typically is the name of your WordPress theme.

Next you will want to add the following text files to your new spiffy WP theme folder:

• Index.php
• Header.php
• Footer.php
• Functions.php
• Sidebar.php
• Comments.php
• Page.php
• single.php
• style.css

Note: These are just your basic theme files needed. If you have any additional sidebars you will need to make an php file for these as well.

In Part 2 of this series we start chopping up our HTML theme and placing the code into the PHP files. Be sure to subscribe to this blog in your feed reader or by email so you don’t miss a single step!

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