Convert PSD To WordPress Website

WordPress has a template driven system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched in between. The PHP and HTML code in these themes can also be edited for more advanced customization. But Overall it very for those who are doesn’t have PHP/HTML knowledge.

 What is a PSD?

PSD (Photoshop Document) is an image file format native to Adobe’s popular Photoshop Application. It’s an image editing friendly format that supports multiple image layers and various imaging options. PSD files are commonly used for containing high quality graphics data.

What WordPress Themes Are?

Assuming that you’re new to WordPress themes, allow me to explain it in a simplest form to you. Consider WordPress themes similar to your smartphone themes.

Step 1: Slicing your PSD

You slice your PSD and divide it into separate image files so that each design component is effectively saved as a separate design file. You can make use of any photo editing software or more preferably Adobe Photoshop to slice your PSD files.

An easy way to slice your PSD is to look for these components first.

• Background
• Header and Separator
• Footer and others

Step 2: Create index.html and Style.css

Now the next step is to reach to the programming world from the designing world. But it is going to be fairly simple. From the PSD design that you have crafted, create a static HTML and CSS template.

You can follow a responsive web design to make sure your site looks beautiful on all screens.

Let me show you a sample break up of code based on the div tag and CSS styling.

Step 3: Break down your index.html into WordPress theme file structure

Now you have the basic template ready and you need to port it to the WordPress environment. But before you do that you may require a little knowledge on how things are organized in WordPress.

WordPress has a specific file structure that you need to follow. You are basically going to upload your web page to WordPress themes and WordPress software should work with it seamlessly so that the plugins and additional functionalities can be added without any hassle or incompatibility issues.

Some pointers that may help you are listed down below.

Basic files of WordPress Theme

• index.php
• header.php
• sidebar.php
• footer.php

• style.css
  The main stylesheet: This file must be attached to the Theme, and it will contain the header information of the theme.
• rtl.css
  The main stylesheet: This file must be attached to the Theme, and it will contain the header information of the theme.
• index.php
  The main template file: It is the parent file of the template.
• comments.php
  This file defines the comments template.
• front-page.php
  The front page template: it is only used for a static front page.
• home.php
  The home page is the front page by default.
• single.php
  This file is used when a single post is queried. For this and all other query templates, index.php is used if the query template is not present.
• page.php
  This one is used for individual page templates.
• category.php
  This page is required to show the categories.
• tag.php
  This page is required when the tag is needed.
• date.php
  To display the date/ and time we need this template page.
• archive.php
  Used when a category, author, or date is queried. Note that this template will be overridden by category.php, author.php and date.php for their respective query types.
• search.php
  To perform a search we need this file inside the template.
• attachment.php
  To view a single attachment we require this file.
• image.php
  Image attachment template is used when viewing a single image attachment.
• 404.php
  The 404 Not Found template is to display the error message when the post is not found.

Step 4: Add WordPress tags

All you have to do now is import the awesome inbuilt functionalities provided by WordPress into your theme files with the help of WordPress tags and add these tags, you can say that you have created a WordPress theme. Follow the given link to know the available WordPress template tags.