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Step 4: Customizing Your Theme
Next we are going to talk about customizing your Wordpress Website.
Almost everyone who installs their own Wordpress theme will at least want to customize the header. How you do this will be dependent on the theme in question. Then you may want to customize other parts of your theme like the sidebar, the footer and the colors.
Many themes will come with settings that allow you to customize the entire site making it completely unnecessary for you to have any previous coding or design experience. I highly recommend these if you are a beginner. The default Wordpress theme is actually a great beginner theme. You could also have a look at your options for premium themes (some are listed in Step 2) as they will often have many customization options.
My favorite theme for total customization is the iThemes Builder theme though I will warn you it's not always for the beginner as there is quite a learning curve with that one. I now use it to build all my own and my client's sites though, including MarketersMojo.com and many others.
The best thing about buying premium themes is that they almost always come with user support as well as forums and files to make installation and customization easy for you.
Other items to customize:
Sidebar - Many people will want to remove the 'Meta' information that is added to some Wordpress themes by default. You may also want to add other elements such as an email opt-in and RSS Feed info to your sidebar. The easiest way to make changes to the sidebars is to use widgets. Almost all new themes are 'widget-friendly'. You simply click on 'Widget' under 'Appearance' in the left menu of your Wordpress software to see what options you have for customizing with widgets.
Background Color – Again, some free and premium themes let you change the background color within the theme settings. Others may require some custom coding. I recommend you go with the ones that don't require coding. I know how to custom code but I'll always choose the easier path if you let me. There are also many themes out there that now offer various color options. This would mean that you don't need to make any color changes yourself and can use the theme 'as is'. Woo Themes is a great choice if you are looking for themes with different colors.
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