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"If you’re starting out building WordPress themes or want to develop a system for building them more efficiently or robustly, how do you decide which approach to take?"

In this article by Rachel McCollin, you will find quite a bit of useful information describing how WordPress themes work and which are some of the different approaches available to developing them.

The options analyzed are:

• Build a theme from scratch,
• Edit (or “hack,” some might say) an existing theme,
• Use the theme customizer to tweak an existing theme,
• Create a child theme to make changes to an existing theme,
• Create your own parent theme (using one of the approaches above) and child themes,
• Use a theme framework.

Particularly interesting is the mention of the Wordpress theme customizer tool, which gives you the option to customize a theme without writing any code, simply by using a WYSIWYG interface. Check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD8v6u3noPg

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Full article: http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2013/03/13/guide-wordpress-theme-options/