By Justin Laing<\/p>\n
1. Find a theme you want to base your new theme off of. A good place to start is the default theme, but you may also want to just tweak another theme that\u2019s closer to the look\/feel you are going for.<\/p>\n
2. Copy the existing theme to a new directory in your themes directory for example if I was making a theme called \u201cwebdesign_meetup\u201d I might copy the \u201cdefault\u201d directory into a new directory called \u201cwebdesign_meetup\u201d.<\/p>\n
3. In your new theme directory edit the style.css file. You should see something
\nlike this in that file:
\n\/*
\nTheme Name: WordPress Default
\nTheme URI: http:\/\/wordpress.org\/
\nDescription: The default WordPress theme based on the famous Kubrick.
\nVersion: 1.6
\nAuthor: Michael Heilemann
\nAuthor URI: http:\/\/binarybonsai.com\/
\n*\/<\/p>\n
4. Edit the theme information. This is the information that will show up under Presentation -> Theme in the administrator.<\/p>\n
5.Go into the WordPress administrator and change your current them to the new one you just created.<\/p>\n
6. Now you can start customizing and see the affects in real time on your site!<\/p>\n
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