WordPress Theme customizations

How have you customized your WordPress theme?

What have you done to make it different or unique than other people?

If you haven't done anything at all, are you worried the theme may bore people?

So this time around, for my blog, I decided to do something different and go with Root Sage, which is kind of like a framework for building WordPress themes.

I saw some pretty cool themes on other blogs and saw that they customized it using Sage so I went with that. It was something new for me to learn and thought it went in line with theme of my blog.

The main custom thing I added so far was my projects section.

How much is Root Sage?

What's your main like? dislikes?

I'm interested in knowing more

It's free! Here's a link to the site: Sage | WordPress Starter Theme with Tailwind CSS & Blade

I originally thought it was a theme builder like Divi when I first saw it mentioned and saw it in use on other wordpress sites.

It's basically a framework where you have to code out the theme. It's like writing from scratch, but Roots provides the groundwork so it's not completely from scratch.

Since programming and development is a hobby of mine (which is what my blog is about!), I would say that I like the workflow. It's similar to how I have been doing my other projects. Highly customizable.

That being said, I'm not familiar with all the tools used by Roots, specifically Laravel. So that has been a hurdle for me but I think I'm getting the hang of it now (after much trial and error). Also if everything is custom-made, it's going to have to be maintained.

Honestly, using Sage for my blog is way too much. From what I gathered, it shines more when you have a lot more complexity, which I don't.

But I wanted to give it a go and try it out.

JWeb said:

It's basically a framework where you have to code out the theme. It's like writing from scratch, but Roots provides the groundwork so it's not completely from scratch.

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I see now.

I thought it was more like DIVI.

However, I still kind of like the idea of it. I've always wanted to create my own WP theme. So, maybe this might be a helper for that. Thanks for the information @JWeb

Shawn Gossman said:

I see now.

I thought it was more like DIVI.

However, I still kind of like the idea of it. I've always wanted to create my own WP theme. So, maybe this might be a helper for that. Thanks for the information @JWeb

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No problem.

This is just one method I came upon that kind of resembled what I've worked on before so that's why I took to it. But in trying to learn this framework, I've come across other methods people use to make their own WP themes. For most use cases, including my own, just using blocks and the site editor is enough nowadays. Maybe creating custom blocks for specific functionality.

Honestly, if I were to create another WordPress theme that's the route I would take. Using Sage for my use case felt like using an audio mixer just so I can use my mic for Zoom.