In WordPress, themes drive a website and determine what it contains, how it behaves and what it looks like. The theme is the visual identity of your website. Before developing your own theme, take a quick review of some key factors to consider when developing a theme:
- Time: How much time do you have to develop your theme, or to learn how to do it?
- Budget: This is related to time but also has to do with whether you can afford to pay for a premium theme or a theme framework.
- Capability: How familiar are you with theme development, with CSS and PHP and with how themes work? If you’re not familiar, how much do you want to learn?
- Future-proofing: Will your theme need to be updated in future? Will other developers be working on it in addition to you? If so, then your approach will need to be as robust as possible.
- Repetition: Do you see yourself developing a number of similar themes in future? If so, your approach will have to allow for code to be reused.
Developing a WordPress theme isn’t as easy as some might lead you to believe, and modifying a theme by others only lasts until the next upgrade. Why not consider having us develop a custom theme just for you. The basis of a good WordPress theme starts with clean, simple HTML/CSS. From there we make use of WordPress’ file structure and divide up our code into the required files such as header, footer, and functions, etc.
We make use of all of WordPress’ functions to allow for the highest level of compatibility with other plugins and versions of WordPress. All of our code is contained within the theme. We take careful attention to not modify any of the core files of WordPress, ensuring your base site stays pure. and helps avoid any conflicts or upgrade challenges.
Depending on how much control you need over your theme, we can add a custom theme options admin panel to your site. Typically this is an area used to control information that globally affects your site and not just merely content.
Whatever your needs are for having a WordPress theme developed, we can help! Feel free to reach out and let us develop a theme just for you!