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Sunday, December 18th, 2005 at 4:18 AM

A number of people have asked me how to go about creating a custom WordPress theme — should they create it from scratch? Modify an existing theme? Performancing.com has a great introduction to customizing WordPress and making your blog look how you want. While I didn’t follow it to make this site, I did use the same method of duplicating the default WP theme, then modifying it to suit my needs. Luckily, WordPress’ PHP template tags make editing much simpler by removing the majority of the necessary code and breaking each important bit of data into single tags. (When you’re done with that, check out part 2.)

(On an unrelated note, please forgive the lack of recent updates. Not too long ago, I finally got myself a full time job and have been rather busy with it. I’ll do my best to keep the tech coming!)

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