Adding the theme header and footer

In the previous section, we went ahead and finished up the HTML template. We're now ready to convert that template into a WordPress theme. Here we have a fresh installation of WordPress:

We'll use this as our starting point. In the editor, open the wpthemes folder as shown in the following screenshot:

Creating a theme inside the wpthemes folder

We'll start with creating a theme inside the themes folder, which is inside the wp-content folder, called photogenik:

Adding a theme

The first thing we will create in the photogenik...