Getting started with building your own wordpress themes?

CMS & WordPress
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Hi.
Does anybody here know of a good tutorial series where I can get started with building my own wordpress themes? I have found some that are from 2008 and 2009. I’m not sure if I can trust anything that old.

If you have built your own series, where and how did you get started?

I cannot get myself to use ready made themes as I find no job satisfaction doing that. I don’t like it and would rather code my own. Good with HTML/CSS and ok with PHP. Hoping I can use that base to get started!

Thanks in advance!

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http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development is a good place to start

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I believe sitepoint has its own series of video tutorials.
And books that deal w/wp as well.

And i really think video tutorials would be a lot more helpfull in getting you up to speed than roaming your way trough the codex.
I also use lynda.com, it has some good intro & advanced tuts for wp and I think it is quite affordable.

& invaluable is of course youtube.
easy dev usually had more wp but now i think he incorporated it w/other stuff like bootstrap
https://www.youtube.com/user/easydevtuts/playlists
chirs coyers has
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCADyUOnhyEoQqrw_RrsGleA
Not updated recently but still good info

non wp realted but helpfull is phpacademy.org & adam khoury

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p.s…
no horse name morbid ever won a race…or so they say. you might want to change your handle :slight_smile:

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I checked out the Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes on learnable and its from 2010. Do you guys reckon that would be any good?

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I’d imagine so, have not seen the learnable tuts myself. The core info for wp i think is reasonably unchanged. & it should be a good intro.
you can also follow up after you are done with other tutorials if that doesn’t answer your questions.
& you’d better know what to ask as well for other possible issues.
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