Chapter 12. The WordPress Toolkit: Themes

Shopping for Themes

As we explained in Chapter 3, “Creating Your Blog’s Look,” people’s first impression of your blog is generated largely by the theme you select. Your theme is what your blog looks like.

In this chapter, we help you navigate the considerably expanded universe of themes available for self-hosted WordPress.org blogs. You’ll learn how to find the right theme for your site. We help you evaluate whether you want to pay for a premium theme, or hire a developer to translate your exact vision. Finally, we show you how to install and activate themes on your site.

We gave you a lot of advice on selecting the right theme in Chapter 3. When you are working with a WordPress.org (self-hosted) ...

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