Part V

Customizing WordPress

Find tips on how to avoid unsafe themes at www.dummies.com/extras/wordpress.

In this part …

• Get introduced to the basic concepts of WordPress themes and templates.
• Become familiar with the primary templates in a WordPress theme and use template tags to customize them.
• Use CSS and HTML to modify a WordPress theme to make it look the way you want it to.
• Build your own simple WordPress theme from scratch.
• Discover parent and child themes and use them to customize your WordPress site.