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I’ve decided to create and publish my own custom WordPress theme. I haven’t come up with the name or anything but all I can say is that it’s going to be free.

At the same time I will be taking notes, step by step and publish a series of posts on designing your own custom WordPress(WP) theme.

Enough said, let’s get right to it.

Folks at WP did a fairly awesome job at simplifying installation process. However, let’s take a brief look into installing WP.

1. First you need to download the latest version of WP, another good point from developers that they always keep the latest version available to download at http://www.wordpress.org/latest.zipUnlike many other open source softwares/scripts where you need to go through versions pick mirrors etc, WP is made simple to download.
2. Unzipping latest.zip(it can also get wordpress-version-number.zip name), you find folder wordpress created. Inside this folder you will find wp-config-sample.php, rename this to wp-config.php file name.
3. Edit this wp-config.php file. Enter your MySQL details here.
4. Now upload everything that is under wordpress directory to your web server. Make sure you upload into a directory that is accessible from outside, it is something like htdocs, public_html or www directories.
5. Fire up your favorite browser and point it to your domain where you uploaded the files.
6. Once you will see WP setup screen, it will ask you to enter the blog title and admin E-Mail address. Once you have done so, it will generate you random admin password. In case you forget to change the random password, WP will email password details to the E-Mail address you provided during the installation.

Now that we know how to setup WP , let’s take a look into WP themes locations. Themes are located in wp-content/themes directory and they are under named folders. To edit or modify WP themes, you look into those folders.

You can see from the left image the basic WP theme structure.

So, in this post we learned how to install WP, and we know where to look and what too look for in WP themes.

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