Most people have wondered why WordPress is the most coveted website development platform? Well, there are quite many reasons to justify your thought. Productive SEO- friendliness of the websites combined with dynamic and highly responsive and “mobile-friendly” themes make for the seamless and high-end and most yearned website development platform. It makes important for everyone associated with WordPress to be well-aware of WordPress theme development basics. There is one thing that definitely kicks our mind hard is the superpower that WordPress gives to the WordPress developers to create unique websites through customization of the themes. Pointers to keep in mind while WordPress theme has to be customized by a professional:

1. Type of website to be created for the client.

2. Target audience of the website to be created.

3. Devices and cross-browser compatibility.

4. Requirements of the site according to business.

5. Layout and design of the website with UI/ UX.

6. User engagement of the website is also to be considered.

7. The website should be “mobile-friendly” at every aspect.

8. The theme should be highly flexible and compatible with the plugins for added functionalities.

Without any further ado, let’s start with the fundamentals of WordPress theme components using which one can easily understand the concepts of WordPress theme customization also.

● Division of theme into various components:

It is important to note that a theme is not a single entity rather a set of components and parts that make up a single WordPress theme. Let’s have a look at the parts of a theme now:

1. .css files of a theme:

A CSS of a theme or Cascading Style Sheet or style.css is the one part of a theme that is responsible for the customizations, design and overall looks of a website. Not only the design part, CSS is also responsible for controlling the comments for theme meta info.

2. Templates of WordPress theme:

Templates are an important part of a theme because a theme can only become highly responsive and “mobile-friendly” if dynamic content of the website is displayed properly to the visitors of the website. These are the templates which are arranged according to Bootstrap.

3. Functions of the themes:

It is most probably the case that if you are going to choose WordPress, you are impressed with the possibilities of WordPress themes for customization. To add customized functionalities to a WordPress website, it is necessary that PHP programming language is well-known by the programmer and hire WordPress developer who can handle it.

4. Beginner Themes:

These type of themes are sometimes called starter themes also. If you are sure about WordPress development skills, go along with the starter themes route. Here, you can tweak and play around pre-existing code of the starter theme and create a tailor-made theme. As a developer, it will save you a ton of time and you can leverage the benefits of keeping the old functions of the theme like layouts, patterns etc. We would like to suggest something here: If you are a pure amateur at WordPress web development, how about choosing a starter theme and go with the flow?

5. Save your parent theme using child themes:

This theme is generally used when you don’t want to risk the parent theme or if you are working to make some changes or modifications to the live website. It has all the functionalities of a parent theme. It is indeed a life saver for a developer who can save a lot of dev and coding time as well as get all the benefits of a parent theme with updates.

Conclusion:

It can be safely concluded that it is always a great idea if you hire WordPress developers who are expert and skilled to handle your business website in WordPress CMS.