How to make your own WordPress theme from scratch (2019) 

Check out my new series for simple WordPress Theme Development - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n3EcEYFgyrQ.html - still under construction but 7 videos so far! Subscribe to be notified when my new videos come out. Will be creating a few per day! Cheers

3 years later, this tutorial is still beneficial to a newbie. Thanks alot.

I'm thinking of creating a series for simple Wordpress theme development which would be a more extended version of this video. It would include setting up a new theme and all of the functionality to go with it, like Navigation, widgets, blog setup, pagination, tags, post thumbnails, advanced custom fields, best way to cache (make the website run as quick as possible), the best hosting options. Please if you can comment any other features you'd like to learn so I can put it in one nice series for you! Cheers

Finally someone focusing of the important parts, and not messing around with env setup, and CSS.

It is mid 2020 now. This is still THE tutorial. With HTML and CSS skills, basic JS skills and an over all understanding of PHP (no actual coding skills), I am actually able to follow and this opens a whole new world for me. Thank you very much for this!

It is 2022 and this video still is the best tutorial on developing a basic wp theme. Thank you so much!

To impart so much knowledge in a time of 46 minutes and 58 seconds this is not something everyone can do. Thank you for that.

I've been struggling for ages trying to find a clear and concise introduction to wordpress theme building. This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so so much!!!!!

This is by far the best tutorial for someone starting on his first template! Clear, straight to the point, and showing common mistakes and how to solve them. Thank you

[ IF! ] - You've watched many more tutorials on this subject: with all the teachers going through their own individual preferences for [php if while] statements, then this is a breath of fresh air. No mucking about with this one, quick - convenient and concise, from demystifying the header.php and footer.php files, and also what that functions.php file actually, and on the fly; clearly explaining how and why they all work and play together. This is a speed course, but highly recommend: (if the rest is finally making sense.) Someone requested the code, here is an example of the index.php file in a theme called 'BlankSlate' As you can see, it's very close. The theme is available here:- en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/ Thank-you again Mr Digital for this most informative tutorial, and yes! - I've subscribed. BTW: Love your Ozzy accent, but there again: I suppose that you'd find my British one quite quaint. (Many thanks once more.)

I don't even know javascript but just watching this video alone has taught me so many basics. Well done man. I honestly would reccommend beginner/intermediates to start with videos like this because instead of just memorizing syntax you actually get to connect what you're coding to real world results in a popular platform like wordpress

I have bought several courses on a very well-known online course portal (has a "u" in its name 😊) but these paid courses can never match the simplicity and the clarity of your explanation. Thank you so much for publishing this here. It really helps.

Dude, I just found your channel and this is one of the best tutorials I've seen so far! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and please make more! Also SEO wise just keep in mind using the H3 right after the H1 tag on the archive.php page is something I won't recommend to you guys, rather than that try to write a rule in your CSS and make your H2 headings look smaller.

Great tutorials, really helped me get to grips with creating my own theme. If I could change one thing, I'd say pause for like 1 or 2 seconds after typing out some code before you switch screens. Sometimes it was really hard to pause the video at the exact moment all the code I needed was on screen before you jumped away.

One of best tutorial to learn wordpress theme!!

Fantastic tutorial! I can finally say I understand wordpress thanks to this tutorial, even if your not thinking in doing your own theme, understanding how it works under the hood is really useful. Thanks man, you cover the essentials in a extremely simple way to understand!

Literally glued to the screen for the whole video. I never understood how WP is put together but this has just booted the doors open for me!

so easy to follow, one of the best tutorials on the basics of WordPress theme development

Two years later and this is still 🔥🔥🔥. Thanks a lot

Excellent tutorial - thanks for putting this together. The pace was right on and you didn't gloss over anything important.

One of the the best RU-vid tutorial ever

Best tutorial for custom wordpress theme, you explain in such simple terms. Thanks a lot!

As someone who was trying to find a way to integrate a theme I made in Flask (python) and then have a blog featured on Wordpress. This is and will be a life saver, thank you a bunch. I didn't think it would be this easy to get started with it!

Thank you so much! I knew a little PHP and Javascript, but this has made both much clearer. Wonderful tutorial!

Best tutorial, straight to the point a lot of learning in 47mins, great effort really appreciate it thanks (y)

First time I'm touching wordpress theme development and this video is the best thing I could ever click to help me.

I really love the tutorial, clean, neat, and no bla bla things. Also includes the diverse essentials. Just love it.

4th tutorial I tried it was also the only one I could follow without having to do a lot of extra installs. Thank you very much.

Excellent tutorials for beginners. This is what required for beginners. I enjoyed this completely.

wow, this was amazing. I am very new to programming. I understood almost everything here. this is the first video that made sense and explains the bigger picture of a Wordpress theme. thank you for this. I am very excited to learn more. it is not like other videos that handhold you into stuff. you have a great way of explaining what you're doing and why you're doing it by making mistakes. the best was when I spotted a mistake before you even came back to fix it. very optimistic about making my own theme from scratch.

one of the best tutorial for wordpress theme development...

After a few days of going through practically head smashing tutorials, I found your video! I am perplexed and so amazed how simple you made this!! Are you a teacher by profession? Love the on point explanation. I would definitely credit you in my source code and when people ask me where you learned theme customization from. Thank you so much! You've just made this video and help a lot of people around the world. May you have all the success!!

that was incredibly good. In 40minutes i learnt more than previous two years.

Get on the point and no waffles.. You keep me awake on this but not like other tutorial. Please keep that way. Rock on Mr Digital

I LOVED this tutorial ! Thank you man ! It was so clear! It's rare to find good content like that ;)

@25:55: just a tip for anyone not familiar with Bootstrap - You can combine "top/bottom" and "left/right" values in paddings and margins. So instead of "pt-5 pb-5" (padding-top: 5, padding-bottom: 5) you can use "py-5" (where "y" means "top and bottom") For "left and right" you would use "px-5" (or any number 0-5)

Absolutely class. A little fast at times but with pause rewind etc. Great to over and over. You also do a fantastic job of explaining why and not only that you just need it. I got a few things wrong following this, but felt I could troubleshoot myself (and did) after watching. Again thank you so much this is free at the end of the day.

Wow! I enjoyed following along with this tutorial. I find it helpful and I now understand Wordpress more. I really liked that you made errors as it was helpful in learning what was causing it and it made more sense. Please make more videos!

Just a little addon: for Gutenberg editor (WP5) support just add: add_theme_support( 'wp-block-styles' ); to your functions.php.

Thanks to this video, I made my first theme (test) and now I'm actually PRETTY excited to go full on ui/ux with it this week! Thank you for the information you've shared!

Thank you very much, I love learning things from scratch instead of leaning on others.

Got a new gig and just wanted to see if there were any changes in how WP custom sites are built. I learned a lot. Thanks for contributing your skills and knowledge to all who watch. I gave you 2 thumbs up. :)

Great video. 47 minutes took me 2 days to really study. So much great information. Many thanks!

This is really amazing tutorial. I am a designer learning about WP development and This video is an perfect for understanding the beginner level. Thank you so much.

Loved watching and following this.

I definitely found the right video for getting the good stuff in a very coherent manner - with great examples. You really brought together several aspects of WP theme development. Thanks!

Dude apologies!...but at 3am in da morning of following ur tutorial...I like when u say....FUTAAAAA!!! , da header and da futaa kept me awake..

amazing tut. and i loved the way you solve every problem, i mean, not every step was perfect, that makes the tutorial more real and easy to follow. Thanks.

I've been looking for a tutorial like this for ages. Thank you so much. It was excellent!

I cracked when he mentioned that this video is not a design tutorial hahaha. But thank you for making this video! Really helped a lot!

Thank uh ...✌️😊😊 After a day .. now at 1:46am ... I am feeling relaxe and happy .. thank u so much ..

WOW! Great lesson! Teaches how to create your theme without needing to know php and/or bootstrap! Those, for me, are too technical. Thank you for this lesson. I'm going to look for more in your channel. programs

Codes don't lie.... that's why I like tutorials on Wordpress with naked CODES fully exposed for all to see - thank you!

Beautifully done, I'll join you for the full lesson playlist next!

This tutorial was amazing. Straight to the important bits and great explanation. Thank you so much!

Love watching it... Don't get bored. Thanks

This tutorial is lightning in a bottle, thank you for making it

It is really very helpful and at least for me, yours is an accurate way to teach. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.

Great video, thanks! One of the things I liked the most is that I didn't have to increase the playback speed - it was just right ;)

Thank you for such a simple, straight to the point tutorial, it was really helpful!

@Mr. Digital I just love your tutorial. Keep it up. One of the best and simple way to describes the major and minor things.Thanks for your help

Awesome tutorial to understand how wordpress works exacly. Thank you for your time!

Genuinely the best tutorial I have ever watched. Thank you

This was brilliant. I've been using wordpress for years, but only now trying to code in it.

Great work. I have achieved all the points covered in this tutorial. I am very happy that I have made a complete them from scratch with the help of your video, otherwise it would be very difficult. Your actions were very fast and I had to pause all the time. If you could take a movement whenever you finished a line or code it would be easy to pause or else even to pause, was a little bit difficult. Even though it helped me a lot. As a student I would like to ask "what next.?". "Deep drive more in Themes" or "How to make plugins?" which video will you suggest?. Thank You once again.

Thank you.. .. Nice tutorial, easy and fast for learning WordPress....

Thanks for the great video. You have explained things in such an easier way. I was able to go through entire video very patiently and understood it very easily.

Thank you @Mr Digital for this free-tut. As I cannot afford udemy for now, you are my hero!

Hey, Mr.Digital Today I saw your tutorial and I must say it's awesome. Keep going. Bless you.

Wow, I loved the tutorial and how you kept everythign simple

And you saved my day! I thought it would take me hours to setup and start creating a new theme, but now I'm ready to start hehe =D

Really great video - lot's of info to absorb, but has got my head around the basics of how to put themes together!

Awesome tutorial, thanks bRo

Awesome video - I have been using this and love it. My only issue is keeping up. Would be nice if the code was included in the description. Would be nice to be able to cut and paste and compare the pages for errors, but thank you, very helpful!

Great tutorial. Thanks a big bunch.

As I am watching I am gonna understand it. Wow so easy . Great job!

its 2021 and I learned a lot from this!

best WP themes tutorial I've watched 👍

Awesome tutorial. A great starting point for any WP newbie like me who wants to create a custom WP theme from scratch. Subscribed

Very, very nice. Concise and to the point. Thank you!

So easy to follow and helpful! Thanks for putting it out.

Everything works perfect, but the last input of jquery doesn't work: function include_jquery(){ wp_deregister_script('jquery'); wp_enqueue_script('jquery', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery-3.4.1.min.js', '', 1, true); add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'jquery'); } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'include_jquery'); can someone explain to my why I cant se the alert, my script $(document).ready(function(){ alert('test'); }) and I have downloaded and added the jquery code.

Thank you so much for this tutorial, you saved the day! I will be using all of this knowledge in the site that I'm building. If I may offer some feedback, it will be easier to follow without the excess of spacing in your coding. 10 empty lines is 9 too many in a row and obscures the previous content.

I'm impressed. Now I can make advanced templates. Thanks.

Amazing Video, I feel like I finally understand WP. Thank you so much!

Thank you! This was a great way to jumpstart my website theme.

Ilove your accent. Clear and confident.

Fantastic tutorial! Really helpful. I'll save it on my favorites folder and watch later. Congratulations for the great content and thank you so much!

my bootstrap file won't work, when I click bootstrap on source page I get a blank page. What can I do to fix the issue?

Thanks for this clear explanation! It's been a while since I builded a theme from scratch, so it was very helpful to refresh my mind. I noticed you are using packages for Sublime to auto complete with Wordpress Codex. I never thought of that, very convenient! I can recommend the Wordpress Developer Resources package as well. With this you can right click on any function and look it up in de Wordpress Documentation. Also the trick to view your website as a guest in incognito is a good one. I just have one question, why do you set the version number for jQuery 3.4.1 to 1 in functions.php?

Great Tutorial! the fastest one but it explains all the basic to start.. thanks man...

the best tutorial to start from scratch, nice job bro

An incredible tutorial, most pofessional and easy!

A really simple and nice tutorial to get started with WordPress! thank you!

Best basic tutorial ever, I have some questions. 1. How can I add a pagination to the archive blogs page ? 2. How can I add related post to the single page ? 3. How to use responsive navigation ?

Thankfully great and simple video make me very clear. God Bless You.

Awesome tutorial. Very clear and easy to understand. Thank you.

So good tutorial Clear, fast, simple. Thank you

Man, you are great! My first thank you on RU-vid. Keep up the good teaching.

The best tutorial on the Internet!