Wordpress Theme Development Made Easy Through These Tools

WordPress an open source CMS powered by PHP and MySql

, let the users to develop well designed and effective website and blog. WordPress has gained immense popularity in a short period of time due to factors like ease of use, availability of plethora of useful plugins and beautiful themes. Due to these factors WordPress has become the most preferred CMS worldwide and is quite popular among small and big businesses. With the immense popularity of WordPress its themes are in great demand to design the websites.

WordPress has a huge community of developers around the globe, if you are a developer and want to develop a WordPress themes, the below mentioned tools will allow you to develop effective WordPress themes:

--A Local Test Server: XAMP or MAMP

The first step to develop an effective WordPress Theme is to have local server on your computer, you can do this by creating a virtual web server (Apache, MySQL and PHP) by installing WordPress in your personal computer. Installing these server programs is a hard nut to crack, but luckily there are couple of free programs to make the task easy like If you work on windows computer you should go for XAMP and Mac users you should go for MAMP.

--Install Latest Version of WordPress

WordPress theme development requires the installation of latest version of WordPress, which needs to be installed in local server where WordPress theme will be tested.

--Text Editor

To create WordPress Themes you don't need any special graphic software but just a plain text editor. Every OS provides you an inbuilt text editor options that are good enough for the theme development. One can also download it from Internet to get additional features like syntax checking, line numbers, multi-line search and replace.

--Dummy Content or Text samples

Your WordPress installation need some text samples or dummy content. WordPress admin provides several samples of dummy content like theme development checklist test data, the sandbox Dummy contents, WPCandy sample content, self conclusion's test data etc. Each of these test data sets has their pluses and minuses but with robust dummy content, itll be easy to see if somethings amiss in your theme.

--Firefox ADD-Ons

With number of browsers available you can choose any browser for web development but Firefox is realy worth trying for theme development, because of the following 2 add-ons that makes it a whole lot easier to develop in WordPress:

-Web Developer Add-on for Firefox: It adds a toolbar to the browser that provides you whole bunch of options for inspecting and debugging your code and to disable CSS styles to validate local HTML.

-Firebug Add-on : With Firebug Add-on you can right-click on any element in your browser window and see every single style rule that is affecting that particular element. You can turn style rules on and off to see the effect and can even modify rules and see the changes in real time.

by: Rekha Bisht

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