How to create a Wordpress Template or Theme
Another Wordpress question that is asked a lot is how to take a current website design and make it work with Wordpress.
This is actually quite a simple thing to do, at least in my opinion it is. This website was actually the first “Wordpress Theme” I ever created. In fact, prior to using Wordpress, it was actually using pMachine (but pMachine stopped being developed/supported, and I was having issues I couldn’t get resolved, so I moved to Wordpress. Been in love with it ever since!)
I’m going to tell you how I integrate website designs and Wordpress into a happy co-existence. What I do isn’t exactly the same as what they tell you to do in the Codex on the subject, and I also tend to use a bit more “plain English”…but my problem sometimes is that I assume you have some knowledge of things. I’m usually wrong on that point. So, if I go over your head on anything, feel free to leave a comment asking me to clarify.
This tutorial is exactly what I do when I have 1) an existing site that needs to be integrated with Wordpress, and/or 2) the urge to create a new theme design specifically for Wordpress. So you can use this tutorial for either purpose: theme creation or site integration.
