Modifying the Bliss theme

To customize the Bliss theme to your liking, you need to do a couple of things before you just start hacking away at the files.

I’ll be showing you how to create a child theme.

First, create a new folder in your /wp-content/themes directory. Name it something like bliss-custom.

Now, you want to copy these files from your bliss folder.

• style.css
• screenshot.png
• The images folder and all its contents.

Drop those files into your bliss-custom folder.

Now, you need to change the information at the top of your /bliss-custom/style.css file. Make it look something like this:

/*
Theme Name: Bliss Custom
Theme URI: http://yoursite.com/bliss-theme
Description: Write a short description.
Template: bliss
Author: Your Name
Author URI: http://yoursite.com
*/

The most important part is this line, and it should look exactly like this:

Template: bliss

That tells WordPress that you want to use the Bliss theme as your framework.

For more advanced customizations, such as editing PHP files, stop by the support forums for help.

If you think you might be doing some PHP customizations, create an empty functions.php file. Then, add this bit in the file:

<?php
?>

The Bliss theme is pretty powerful, so we can do a lot of customization with this one file.