Title: A simple tutorial for creating themes
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# A simple tutorial for creating themes

 *  [gesiwuj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gesiwuj/)
 * (@gesiwuj)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-simple-tutorial-for-creating-themes/)
 * Here’s a little 6 page tutorial I wrote about WordPress themes. It covers the
   following topics:
 *  * Installing WordPress (breifly)
    * Making the CSS Style Sheet * WordPress Functions*
   WordPress Loop
 * and more. Download it if you want, it’s in FlashPaper and Acrobat format:
 *  [FlashPaper (.swf, 88kb)](http://www.ges-net.com/stabby/SimpleWordpressTheme.swf)
 *  [Acrobat (.pdf, 212kb)](http://www.ges-net.com/stabby/SimpleWordpressTheme.pdf)

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 *  [resiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resiny/)
 * (@resiny)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-simple-tutorial-for-creating-themes/#post-378521)
 * erm….simple is a good word. what you’re teaching in the tutorial is a little 
   bit dodgy, methinks…using p class= instead of div class=…..and you never actually
   tell how to make a theme, you just give the skeleton of a theme…something more
   like [this](http://www.urbangiraffe.com/themes/guides) might have been better…
 *  Thread Starter [gesiwuj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gesiwuj/)
 * (@gesiwuj)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-simple-tutorial-for-creating-themes/#post-378582)
 * OK, thanks for the feedback. I used this theme for my own website (I wanted it
   as a news thing), and I tried using DIVs but they wouldn’t work for some reason:(.
 *  [resiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resiny/)
 * (@resiny)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-simple-tutorial-for-creating-themes/#post-378656)
 * they wouldn’t work? ah, one possible mistake you were making was matching a div
   class with a div id…
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-simple-tutorial-for-creating-themes/#post-378664)
 * To be honest, for somebody that has never seen a WP theme – it is totally confusing.
   
   Also, by using only one (1) template file and `<p>` tags for html formatting 
   it goes against any other theme you can find out there – which makes it even 
   more confusing.
 * I wouldn’t call it a tutorial for creating _themes_ – it’s just a very summary
   guide for one **specific** situation: when you want to embed the blog into another
   page/file. But for that you can simply use [The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop).
 *  [pezastic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pezastic/)
 * (@pezastic)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-simple-tutorial-for-creating-themes/#post-378855)
 * Yes, the document is simple, but anyone that likes Verdana is a friend of mine!
   Although, you may want to run a spellcheck on it, as there are a few typos.
 *  [deadseraphim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadseraphim/)
 * (@deadseraphim)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-simple-tutorial-for-creating-themes/#post-378860)
 * In your tutorial it says:
 * “You can’t just reference to the style sheet by typing ‘style.css’, but you have
   to type the full URL.”
 * A better alternative would probably be to use “<? bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’)?
   >/style.css” in place of the full URL. It would ensure that the theme works in
   any context, not just one website with an absolute URL.

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