You have probably heard lots of discussions on the subject of theme framework over the past year, as it was becoming more and more popular. Meanwhile, many developers and even more users are trying to understand what it is exactly and how it is supposed to work. So, if you are the one of those who aren’t familiar with it yet, then the real purpose of theme framework may be lost for you.

Notwithstanding there’re some arguments against it, there’re also plenty of reasons for using frameworks. Most designers have quite a good understanding of a framework, but broadly speaking, a WordPress framework is some kind of a large-scale outline, presenting an approach to quickly develop WordPress themes that are based on common axioms. Don’t miss the main word – just an approach. So it could have different meanings to different users.

It may look anyhow – as a set of distinct hierarchy of scripts, style sheets or plugin support files, or as a theme with minimal styling of microformats or custom functions. It may be whatever, but the one thing will stay invariable – a certain style of coding, organizing and referencing the workpieces.

So, if you follow the thread of thought, then you now understand that theme framework is not the a cure-all solution or an ideal theme, and not the thing you can easily adhere to. However, you should see the potential of frameworks – they can decline the chance of errors, provide you with a stable way to approaching projects and theme customization, and also speed up repetitive tasks and client support.

It does have advantages, but not everyone will be able to create a templating system. Nevertheless, you can benefit from a ready framework, especially if you’re a developer or designer, willing to increase the productivity, enhance the product range or get rid of obstacles coming with coding from scratch. And if you’re just a regular user, curious about what this has to do with you, you could benefit even more, because the author of the parent theme will provide you with updates and new functionality every single time they become available, so you may forget about worries concerning losing or rewriting your customizations. You will understand it better after working with one framework for a while, but you have to choose with which one exactly. All of them differ greatly, as you know that the framework can be whatever its author wants it to be, but they all will be definitely useful for those, who clearly understand their purpose.

To create a WordPress theme is not so easy. Some designers spend weeks on creating a good looking theme.

I searched on the web for great tutorials for creating a WordPress theme form scratch that are very great explain and easy to use.

If you are going to create a theme than this article will be very helpful for you. Here are 8 Tutorials for Creating a WordPress theme from the best WordPress developers.
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How to Create a WordPress Theme by Jonathan Wold

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How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch by Themetation

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How to Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch by Nettuts+

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How to create a WordPress Template or Theme by Brass Blogs Web Design

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How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch by Eric Martin

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How to create a simple WordPress theme

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How to make a child theme for WordPress by op111.net

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How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial

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I think that everybody who have a blog wants it to have unique design in the blogosphere, because unique style means superiority and it’s cool.

So there are some small tricks that you can apply on you blog to make it to look better then before.

In this article I will show you how to recreate an existing WordPress Theme and making in it a unique and powerful design just in easy steps.

For example WPCrowd use a free Freemium Theme from freebiesdock.com, very well designed and I like it very much.

Now what step I used to transform a popular theme that uses a lot of people in a good looking and unique template:

1. Removed a sidebar because the theme is 3 column but we need 2 column theme.

In the index.php file of the theme I deleted the “<?php get_sidebar(); ?>” tag that represents the sidebar colored in red.

Moved the sidebar.php widgets to sidebar2.php.

And in the single.php removed the all <div id=”post_data”> tag.

2. Enlarged the post space in home page.

In the style.css file I enlarged the size of the post from 348px to 608px for the home page.

3. Changed backgrounds color in the post and for the comments, text color changed to black, links from green to orange, editing only the style.css file and images that are used in menubar.

4. Added a background image that combines very well in this theme.

I hope you enjoyed this article and if you want you can post a comment about your thoughts and ideas.