Creating a WordPress theme from scratch is not hard. I’ll hold your hand through it.

Tutorials on this topic is being written while you reading this post and the WordPress website also has guides for you to follow. But are those tutorials and guides really helpful to you when you don’t understand the lingo? Even I got lost while reading the WordPress guides.

Tools – Before we get started, you’ll need:

• WordPress installed on your computer. Follow the instructions on Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP. If you can’t install WordPress on your computer for whatever reason, no worries, just make a dummy WordPress install on your website.
• Notepad or other text editors. I use Notepad ++, you can find it at www.downloads.com.
• SmartFTP – If you’ll be testing your theme online, I’d suggest that you download and install SmartFTP or another FTP program to upload your theme files.
• Bookmark XHTML Validator and CSS Validator. You’ll need those tools to validate your theme. They also come in handy when you need to spot and fix errors.

Past few days I see advertisement of new wordpress theme generator, so I decided to full test it and write a review on this one. I had so troubles using yvos lately.

You can visit it here: www.wppal.com

It has 6 premade templates at the moment and there is a possibility to add one of yours templates I am thinking of doing one so they could add it. Though It’s very easy to use, in wppal theme generator just in 5 steps I had a template done.

1. Select a layout from the home page.

2. Change the colors to what you would like them with the color palettes on the left.

3. Click Update after changes to see a preview in real time.

4. Once you have exactly what you want, click save and then click download zip file for download and use.

Besides all the good part of wppal, it needs some more addons, like uploading images for backgrounds, google adsense integration and other. Though I understand that first it needs to be tested as it is now, later we will see what wppal going to bring us.

Keep tracking this post if you want to know what I think about that generator.

I believe that all plugins that I use to Power up WPGeek you can get for free links are included where you can get them.

Here is the list of plugins:

Akismet

This plugin filters spam comments. To install it, you need an API key; and to get the API key, you need a WordPress.com account.

Akismet has protected your site from

Clean Options

Finds orphaned options and allows for their removal from the wp_options table.

It’s good for cleaning up your blog after removing unwanted plugins.

Optimal Title
Instead of the default title structure, for example, WPGeek > About, this plugin switches it around to About > WPGeek. It’s good for search engine optimization (SEO) reasons.

runPHP
Allows you to use PHP code within your posts.

Most Commented
Retrieves a list of the posts with the most comments.

Random Quotes
This plugin allows you to embed random quotes into your pages. It also has a spiffy management tool in the administrative console.

DO NOT use this search code in the

search.php
<?php echo $_SERVER [’PHP_SELF’]; ?>

Nobody should be allowed to search your entire server, or?

Use this one instead:

<?php bloginfo (’home’); ?>