Online WordPress Theme Generator

Posted on February 19, 2008
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If you are looking for the quickest way to create a WordPress theme, look no further. The online Wordpress Theme Generator does exactly that - it creates Wordpress themes that you can instantly deploy. Like all generators, there are limitations but let’s take a look at what the Wordpress Theme Generator can do first.

The WordPress online generator is created by Yvo Schaap and it lets you create your own custom WordPress theme. You don’t need to have any knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, PHP or CSS. You can customize the variables and see the changes immediately in a fully formed WordPress theme preview.

What can you customize?

Site name
Body size
Sidebar location
Third column
Menu layout
Overall scheme
Background
Text scheme
Tag cloud
Archives and search
Distribution

Save changes and deploy WordPress theme

Once you are happy with the customization, all you have to do is save the theme and a zip file is created and made available for download. The zip file contains the files that makes up the WordPress theme.

What version of WordPress is the generated theme based on?

The WordPress theme generated using the generator is based on WordPress 2.1 to 2.3 with Yahoo! UI (grids, tabs & fonts) to support all A-Grade browsers and valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. The theme also supports widgets and tags.

How can I access the online WordPress Theme Generator?

http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

My thoughts

It is very powerful for bloggers who are not programmers or designers because you can instantly create a WordPress theme without having to learn PHP coding, HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

It can only generate standard themes but if you have knowledge on how to code, you can take the generated files and make changes to them and produce WordPress theme fast.

Not able to generate magazine style themes which are becoming popular these days.

Personally I would use the generator as a tool to guide me to learn how to create WordPress theme. I don’t know about you but I learn faster by example.

If you decide to try out the WordPress theme generator, let me know your experience and thoughts.

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