Nope, you can use GUIs but don't have to. There are plenty of great tutorials out there that you build it sans any GUI except an IDE if that is what floats your goat. You could do any of them with vim. In fact, here is a few that I referenced:
http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-build-a-custom-wordpress-theme-from-scratch http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/how-to-create-a-wordpress-theme-from-scratch/ And here is a link for a list of others: http://line25.com/articles/15-tutorials-to-help-you-build-wordpress-themes On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Daniel C. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Brian J. Rogers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I recently just put together a rather simple theme for my Wordpress > blog. I > > used Twitter Bootstrap with a Bootswatch base theme, and I had a working > > theme in just a few hours. There are still a few things I need to do on > it, > > but I have to admit that being mostly in Front-End, Wordpress is > incredibly > > easy in it's approach for me to extend it. So that'd be my vote. > > Do you have to fiddle about with stupid web-based interfaces in order > to change things? If I've got the software installed on my own > server, I want to just ssh in, open a file and edit it, and be done. > Worst case scenario, edit a small handful of files. Under no > circumstances am I willing to use a web interface (any GUI is > stretching it, really) to try and modify the layout, etc. of a web > site I'm maintaining. > > -Dan > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
