Title: Creating a theme
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Creating a theme

 *  [harry_034](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harry_034/)
 * (@harry_034)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-theme-9/)
 * How long do you think it would take to build a custom theme? I have a website
   that I need to build into WordPress but it’s taking me forever. There is so much
   documentation that I keep hitting a brick wall whenever I think I’m making progress.
   So far all I’ve managed to do is create the basic look, but my images aren’t 
   showing (don’t know why) and I’ve just tried to implement a custom menu and that
   doesn’t work either. I’m new to wordpress but I have looked at the basics with
   a dummy site but I didn’t realise how complicated building a theme would be.
 * I don’t want to get a developer to do it as it will more than likely cost me 
   a fortune, but if I can get a time estimate than at least I can go from there.
 * Thanks for any advice.
 * Harry

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-theme-9/#post-5521664)
 * You can’t get a time estimate, I’m sorry. This is too vague. If you need help
   with something specific then we can try to answer that.
 *  Thread Starter [harry_034](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harry_034/)
 * (@harry_034)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-theme-9/#post-5521689)
 * I suppose the two questions I have currently are:
 * 1) Why are my header images not showing?
    I have created the header.php files,
   referenced the images in the head under “pics/kaitlinHowardHomePicHeader.jpg”
   and also tried “/pics/kaitlinHowardHomePicHeader.jpg” and referenced the <?php
   get_header(‘headerHome’); ?> in the index file. They are saved in the theme directory
   on FTP in the “pics” folder.
 * 2) I am trying to create a custom menu. I took instructions from a Treehouse 
   article but all I’m getting is the tail end of the code:
    ”)); ?>
 * The code is as follows:
 * <!–Left nav–>
    <div class=”col-md-4 col-sm-4″> <div class=”sidebar-nav”> <div
   class=”navbar navbar-default”> <div class=”navbar-header”><button class=”navbar-
   toggle” type=”button” data-toggle=”collapse” data-target=”.sidebar-navbar-collapse”
   > <span class=”sr-only”>Toggle navigation</span>
 * </button></div>
    <div class=”navbar-collapse collapse sidebar-navbar-collapse”
   > <ul class=”nav navbar-nav”>
 *  <?php wp_list_pages(array(‘title_li’ => ”)); ?>
 * <ul class=”dropdown-menu”>
 * <ul class=”dropdown-menu”>
 * </div>
    <!–/.nav-collapse –>
 * </div>
    </div> </div> <!–Left nav ends–>
 * Thanks,
    Harry

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 * Last reply from: [harry_034](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harry_034/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-theme-9/#post-5521689)
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