4 key plugins for creating a custom WordPress theme from scratch

Many of us have been facing the issue of creating a custom WP theme or using a ready or premium thee once the client comes to us with custom design.

Of course the best solution is creating a new theme from scratch. In this tutorial I will show you a bunch of tips and plugins that will help you to create your custom wordpress cms based website easily.

1. Wp Types

Creating custom post types and custom fields is required in most of our scopes when its a question of custom development. Its good that this has never been easier.With wp types you can easily create custom post types, attach them big variety of custom fields (checkboxes, textaras, dropdowns, files etc. etc.). Its nice that you can define custom fields based on post type, page template, category end etc.

website: http://wp-types.com/

2. Optimizepress plugin

Great way to give your clients the freedom of creating pages with rich content. Optimizepress may look “lame” style, but its really powerful tool when its a point of not-standard and template-based pages development. They have large variety of web elements that you can put in your wordpress editor with simple wizard (no shordcode writing needed). Their library includes many call to action (CTA) buttons, subscribe forms, social sharing and following buttons, video players, accordions, tab elements and etc.

3. Contact form 7

99.9% of the websites has contact form. We strongly recommend using contact form 7 plugin for creating advanced contact forms that could be sent to email or saved in database. Contact form 7 also have great callback options and additional plugins which makes it #1 solution for me.

Download from: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

4. Woocommerce

Known as the best ecommerce solution for wordpress sofar, woocommerce provides a powerful core of ecommerce functions that can help you to creating your theme into custom wp based online shop. WooCommerce comes with very easy to customise templates structure and a lot of external posibilities for payments, delivery, product showing and etc.