Building custom layouts and extending theme layouts

Each WordPress site or application is built around a theme and set of plugins. In general, most people prefer to use a high-quality existing theme, while some of them require a complete theme built for them from scratch. Regardless of these preferences, you need to be skilled in theme development, in order to cater to modern trends. Widget-based dynamic screens, responsive layouts, and dynamic content displays based on user preferences are some of the modern trends used in themes. The most common form of development is the customization of existing theme layouts and building new post/page templates.

Modern applications may also require you to add complex features into the theme instead of ...

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