You have to understand that themes control the appearance of your site, so you might assume that getting the look you want is a matter of choosing the right theme. The truth, however, isn’t so simple. For start you mainly got two choices to get: nulled WordPress themes or to get free WordPress themes from those two URLs. I personally prefer to pick my themes from this locations.
Choosing a theme is the Big Choice you make about your site’s visual appearance. It settles a number of important formatting issues—for example, the way WordPress uses graphics, fonts, and color across all your pages, and the overall layout of your of header, sidebar, and footer. It also determines the way WordPress presents key ingredients, like the date of a post, the post’s category and tag information, and the links that let guests browse through your archives. But even the slickest theme may not mesh perfectly with your site. To get it right, you may need to adjust a number of additional settings. Your page’s header image is a perfect example —if your theme includes one, you’ll almost certainly want to replace the stock image with something that better represents your site.
In this chapter, you’ll start by learning how to make small changes that customize a theme. Then, once you have an understanding of exactly how flexible a theme is (and isn’t), you’ll go theme shopping for something with more pizazz.
Choosing a New Theme
As you’ve seen throughout this chapter, there’s a lot you can do by customizing the standard Twenty Eleven WordPress theme. In fact, it’s a reasonable starting point for a wide range of polished, professional blogs. But if you’re interested in a dramatic change, these tweaks won’t be enough. Instead, you’ll want to give your
site a radical new style by changing its theme. At this point, you may be wondering when it’s worth abandoning the standard theme and using something more exotic. Here are some reasons why you would:
• You want something completely different. Changing background colors and header pictures is one thing, but a new WordPress theme can rework almost every visual detail of your site.
You want your theme to reflect the subject of your site. For example, there are custom themes for travel blogs, photo blogs, magazine-style news blogs, and so on. There’s even a theme for coordinating and celebrating a wedding (called Forever). Although your site still works the same way, picking a specialized theme changes the way other people see your site.
• You want your site to work differently. Themes also control the way your site works, in ways subtle and profound. For example, some themes let you tile your posts instead of putting them in a top-to-bottom list which is great if you want your site to show a portfolio of work rather than a list of articles, Or your theme may include a fancy frill, like a slideshow of featured posts. Even if you’re happy with the standard WordPress theme, it’s worth trying out a few different ones, just to open your mind to new possibilities. As you’ll see, although changing a theme has a profound effect on the way your site looks, doing it is almost effortless. And most themes are free, so there’s no harm in exploring. Note The only limitation with WordPress themes is that somewhere in cyberspace, there are sure to be plenty of other websites using the same theme that you pick. This isn’t a huge problem, provided you’re willing to customize your site in little ways—for example, by choosing a suitable header picture, as described in this chapter. (And it’s also true that no matter what your site looks like, its content makes it unique.) However, if you’re a style-conscious site designer and you’re using a very distinctive, graphical style, it’s worth your while to customize it further. The simplest approach is to change the formatting in the theme’s style.css file, but more ambitious WordPress self-hosters can create completely unique, one-of-a-kind sites by editing their template files by hand.
Do not know about you but I feel tired already. I am out, till next time folks.
Thank you for reading.