WordPress Theme Paperback Writer Theme – How I Made a WordPress Theme From Scratch

I just started a personal site at http://jeffbarr.com to showcase my pulp fiction type writing (science fiction fantasy horror et al), and also some of my personal projects. I needed a theme, so I decided to do a little experiment and learn how to make a WordPress theme from scratch. It’s called Paperback Writer Theme - if you like the theme, you can download it and use it freely. I will rite a short how-to on the way I chose to make a WordPress theme from scratch, as it turned out to be easier than I thought it would be. This is from my personal site, JeffBarr.com:

… I couldn’t find anything much to suit me at the WordPress Theme Repository, so I decided to learn to make a WP theme, as despite several years of hacking themes and general WP tomfoolery, I had never sat down and tried to make a theme. The result: Paperback Writer Theme – my first and most likely last foray into making a WordPress theme. Please note that if you want to use it, you will want to add a good deal of functionality – right now it is very bare boned.