Wordpress Theme Generators

I've been working with Wordpress for some time now, frustrated at free Wordpress themes and wishing there was a good free Wordpress Theme Generator. I've just revisited my search and below is a list of free Wordpress Theme Generators.

If you're after the best Wordpress Theme Generator, then you'd need to look at the professional (yet affordable) choice of Wordpress Themes for Business. These will enable you to quickly setup and run a new business theme as quickly as possible. Products like Artisteer and Thesis fill this market need.

But if you're just starting out and want to generate yourself a free Wordpress theme, what are your choices?

My first adventures with a free Wordpress theme generator weren't good, to be honest. There was just one available at the time (there aren't many more now!) and once I'd created my theme and downloaded it it just didn't seem to work on my blog. Well, that was two years ago, so where is the market at now?

There are a couple more free Wordpress theme generators and one I found that's free to use and try out, then you can buy your design - and even sell it on. So let's look at some of them.

Note: These theme generators are for use with your own Wordpress blog - they are not suitable if you have a blog hosted on Wordpress.com.  If you want your own themes, you need to get yourself your own website. 

List of Wordpress Theme Generators

The Blog Theme Generator software only works on PCs running Microsoft Windows and it's only for designing Wordpress themes.

This is Wordpress theme software that you download to your PC and run. I like this as it means I can generate different Wordpress themes and save them on my PC to continue or use later. A lot of online Wordpress theme generators make you select options then instantly produce a theme, but there's no way of saving that, or amending/tweaking it later.

As more and more people are relying on Internet dongles to access the Internet through the cellphone infrastructure, this means the Wordpress theme generator will be more reliable and you're not using up valuable/expensive bandwidth. I, myself, don't have a fixed broadband service so thinking about Internet connectivity, speed and bandwidth are important to me.

Features of the Wordpress Blog Theme Generator

• Turn any photo into a Wordpress blog theme in 60 seconds
  
• Turn any header graphic into a Wordpress blog theme in 30 seconds
• Customize existing blog themes - got one you like already, that needs altering a bit, use this.
• Includes an Easy Crop Tool.  If you're starting with an image and just want to crop it to fit, the easy crop tool is the easiest way I've ever seen to do this.  Simply drag each of the 4 sliders around the image to select the part you want.

Put simply, this blog theme generator quickly generates almost instant blogs for people who want something in the next 5-10 minutes - and don't want to spend the next week trawling through free Wordpress themes trying to find one that fits.

Buy Blog Theme Generator

Cost: $27, with a full 30-day money back guarantee

Website: http://www.blog-theme-generator.com/

No technical knowledge is needed to use this Wordpress theme generator. Templatr lets you simply design your blog with a few clicks.

This is an online Wordpress theme generator - and once you've finished you can simply download your design. It should take you about 15 minutes to create a template from scratch once you know what you're doing - plus any time you need to source/buy/find images to use.

They've put together some help files, to help you quickly grasp the terminology too, which you can read at: http://templatr.cc/help/

You start by choosing one of 24 layouts, based on a grid format, so you're deciding how many header sections, how many columns, where the columns should be, how many footer sections, you need.

Your design is stored on their server for 30 days, so you can go back and tweak it over this time if you want to test it as you're working on it.

Features of Templatr

• Online Wordpress Template Generator
• Your design is saved for 30 days on their server - simply download it when you've finished working on it
• Add pictures or your logo easily. It uses GIF, JPG or BMP file formats.
• Change fonts etc easily

I think this is a great free Wordpress template generator, but once you've got the basic design and want to start fiddling around with it, if you've not seen html before then you might be a bit daunted by the way it enables you to make the changes.  It is easy to do, but some people might end up deciding there are too many choices to make and options to set.

Buy Templatr

Cost: FREE

Website: http://templatr.cc

With Blog Theme Creator, it's free to sign up, login and play around with the custom Wordpress design creator - you only pay if you generate something you like and want to use.

No design skills required, you simply choose and pick things. You can upload your own images or logo too.

With their online Wordpress theme generator tool, you can be working on as many templates as you want at once.  You can modify any existing Wordpress theme or choose one from their extensive collection. You can preview it all live as you're making changes too.

You're even allowed to resell the themes you create - this is a great work from home, or start your own business idea.

I did experience some problems with database errors though, so wasn't actually able to get started at all today.

Features of Blog Theme Creator

• No technical knowledge needed.
• Blog Theme Creator is an online Wordpress theme generator
• Extensive templates collection for you to choose from and modify
• Extensive graphics and videos collection for you to choose and add to your template
• Files are saved, so you can keep returning to improve your design.
• Only pay when you're happy with what you've designed.
  

Buy Blog Theme Creator

Cost: $19.99 payable once you're happy with the theme you created

Website: http://blog-theme-creator.com