Title: How to practice theme development
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# How to practice theme development

 *  [jayantsoni002](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayantsoni002/)
 * (@jayantsoni002)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-practice-theme-development/)
 * Friends, I am a student and pretty much working on the concepts from 20 days.
   I have an intermediate knowlegde of Php and very good command over html and css.
   
   I want to develop themes so I downloaded a basic theme from wordpress.org repository
   so that I can duplicate every single word from it to undertstand the working.
 * But I am not getting it, can anyone tell me how to practice it..what to do yaar…
   I am just a beginner infront of you guys…Please Please Please share your expierience
   so that I can get to know how to do it.
 * the main thing that is blowing my head is.. _e (translation) sprintf..
    How can
   I remove them..can Anyone tell me up…these are for transating, I know but i dont
   want to use them…How would I change them so that I get to know the basic code..
 * Thanks in advance,

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