Title: Custom theme
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Custom theme

 *  [jarilo80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarilo80/)
 * (@jarilo80)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-35/)
 * I wont to create a custom theme with custom template pages, custom post pages
   etc. I also wont to put slider plugin in it, translate plugin…
 * Question is, how this can be done by allowing the users to install only WordPress
   without having to import the database to enable all of this stuff.
 * I mean, all the user is needed to do is to run 5min installation and to put theme
   in themes folder and activate it without having to mess with database?

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 *  [Digico Paris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digico-paris/)
 * (@digico-paris)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-35/#post-7651719)
 * If you mean a premade build of WordPress, I can advise you 3 ideas :
 * – Vagrant (you can easily script setup)
    – Docker (plenty of builds + easy to
   script) – XAMPP (provides a way to do it in Windows GUI, but default DB is now
   MariaDB)
 * Depending on OS you need, you could also use NullSoft installer, to make your
   own package on Windows. Anyways, you could also think of some local setup to 
   automatically go to a given web server/VPS, vagrant or docker are perfect for
   that end.
 *  Thread Starter [jarilo80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarilo80/)
 * (@jarilo80)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-35/#post-7651741)
 * Thank You Digico, I work in XAMPP and upload files with Filezilla, but what I
   mean is that everything that you put in wordpress need a database. Everything
   is written in there. I want to create a theme that is simple to install and that
   anyone can install it without working with databases.
    what are the possibilities
   of such theme which do not have to use anything that requires work with database,
   or is it posible? Examples are: twentyfifteen, twentyfourteen and themes that
   can be simply istalled…
 *  [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/)
 * (@jakept)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-35/#post-7651742)
 * I’ve never heard of a theme that requires messing with a database…
 * You’ll always need to create a database to get WordPress running, but the theme
   shouldn’t need any extra work on the database.
 * You might want to give the Theme Handbook a read. It’ll sow you how WordPress
   themes are constructed:
    [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/)
 *  Thread Starter [jarilo80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarilo80/)
 * (@jarilo80)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-35/#post-7652007)
 * Thank you Jacob for the link.
    If I put slider, plugins, custom pages in the 
   theme than I need to export database so I can use it on a different computer 
   to look same as on mine. Also need to copy whole wordpress folder that I have
   installed on first computer and copy it on the second computer htdocs folder 
   and import database… Isn’t it?
 *  Thread Starter [jarilo80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarilo80/)
 * (@jarilo80)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-35/#post-7652008)
 * OK, here is a simpler question:
 * Can I use slider plugin in my custom theme and than just use that theme on another
   wordpress installation as a new theme ( copy paste that theme folder in another
   themes folder ). Would slider still work?

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## Tags

 * [custom theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-theme/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/template/)

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 * Last reply from: [jarilo80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarilo80/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-35/#post-7652008)
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