How to Create a Custom WordPress Theme Without Any Code:-Do you want to create a custom theme from scratch? Previously you need to follow WordPress codex and have decent knowledge of coding to build a custom WordPress theme. But now theme generators are available for anyone to create completely custom WordPress theme within an hour without coding knowledge. Today we will show you how you can create custom WordPress themes easily.
Creating Custom WordPress Theme for Beginners:- unlike static HTML websites, WP Themes are set of template files written in Php, CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Typically you need to have decent understanding of all these programming languages or hire a web developer to create custom WordPress theme.
If you hire a developer or agency the cost of custom theme can reach thousands of dollars. Since various small businesses couldn’t afford high costs of custom theme, a lot of them settled for default themes that are available in wordpress.
Those who don’t want to settle & need customizations either use a drag and drop builder or used a theme framework to build custom theme. While theme frameworks made it easy to build themes easier, they are solutions for developers not for average business owners.
On the other side page builder plugins made it easy to build custom page layout using drag and drop interface but they are only limited to layout only.
Beaver builder one of the best page builder resolve this issue with its addon beaver themer. It allows you to create custom theme layouts using drag & drop interface.
How to Create a Custom WordPress Theme Without Any Code
Setting up Beaver Themer to Build Custom Themes:
Initially you need to install Beaver builder and Beaver Themer. Beaver themer enables you to create custom theme but you still need a theme to start with. We recommend using a simple light-weight theme that includes full width page to act as starter theme.
You can find many themes in wordpress.org theme directory. Most modern themes include full width template.
Setting up theme for Beaver Builder:-
While building custom theme with beaver themer, its important to make sure beaver themer has access to full body page. The default layout includes a sidebar which is difficult to work with beaver builder. You can change it by visiting admin panel customize page settings. After publishing the changes the new layout with no sidebars is displayed which is best for beaver themer.
Full page layout allows beaver themer to use each and every inch of screen so you can create end-to-end visual experience.
Quick Fundamentals of Beaver Themer:- Beaver themer works on top of beaver builder. As a page builder beaver builder plugin allows you to drag & drop items to page to create custom layouts.
It has templates, columns, rows and modules that you can use to build theme. Simply edit page and click on add new button at top right corner. Then drag and drop items to create layout.
Building a custom header for your theme:-
Let’s begin with header area. A custom header is essential part of custom theme and building one can be tricky with traditional methods. Luckily beaver builder has inbuilt header features. you can use pre-built templates or create using image and menu modules with two column layout.
In order to get this is header area we’ll need to setup a header layout in beaver themer. Navigate Beaver Builder>> Add New page and provide title for header. After that choose themer layout as type and header as layout option.
You can create custom footer in the similar way you have created header.
Building Content Area for Posts & Pages:-
Now that we have build custom header and footer for all the pages, it’s time to build page or post body content area. We’ll start in same way that we build the header & footer by adding ‘Singular’ layout in the Add New Page.
Next you have to select where to display this layout. You make use of Singular for single posts & pages or you can choose just post or pages.
Creating Archive Layout for Custom Theme:-
Now your custom theme has started to shape up, you can move forward to create layouts for other part. Archive pages are where site displays tags, categories, author and monthly archives. Let’s create archive page layout using custom theme.
Start using Beaver Builder>> Add New page and provide title for archive layout, after that select Themer layout as type and archive as layout. Click on add themer layout to continue.
Creating other layouts for your Custom WordPress Theme:-
Beaver themer allows you to build layout for other pages in template hierarchy. For example- template parts, 404 page, search result page and more. Using drag and drop functionality of beaver builder you can easily create custom theme for WordPress.