How To Design A Wordpress Blog Theme Template From Scratch

Whoah there! Now, there are lots of websites and blogs online which will give you snippets of information about designing templates or will hint at the various tips and tricks designers use to crank out money making wordpress themes but for an all in one solution you can't beat the book put together by the pros over at Sitepoint.

Build Your Own Wicked Wordpress Themes is jam packed with information which is guaranteed to set you on the right road to becoming a profitable wordpress theme designer. Whether you are aiming to make a part time or even full time career out of designing for wordpress, or whether you just want to make unique wordpress themes from scratch without having to pay a small fortune to a professional template designer this book is for you.

I started designing templates the hard way, by scrabbling around on the internet looking for online wordpress template building tutorials and sure, there's a lot of really helpful information out there if you are willing to go digging for it but reading through unstructured information like this can often help tie you up in knots as well leading to many countless hours of lost time as you try to work around problems which turn out to be pretty straightforward when they are explained correctly.

The problem is, a lot of this information is written by designers who assume knowledge and miss out steps in the design process or who simply are not very good teachers even if they are superb and very knowledgable at make themes and layouts. Stumbling around filling in those knowledge gaps can cost you many hours of wasted time or at the very worst, make you give up on the idea of learning how to build wordpress blog themes yourself and missing out on some of the millions of dollars website owners spend on these layouts every month.

Build Your Own Wicked Wordpress Themes covers the nuts and bolts of creating wordpress layouts from scratch from the pencil and paper planning stage all the way through to marketing a theme effectively to maximize your sales if that is your intent.

On the way you will learn about and use the concept of frameworks and child themes, how to make themes widget friendly and how to make your own wordpress widgets, how to make your themes more flexible with a custom options page allowing users to change theme colors etc. to suit their needs and more.

Put simply, Build Your Own Wicked Wordpress Themes is easily the best book on wordpress theme designing if you are really serious about learning how the pros make 6 figures every year selling their themes to the millions of wordpress blog owners out there.