Changing the Theme Details

Quick tutorial on how to change the name, description, author, and tags of your WordPress theme. I also go over how to add a screenshot for the WordPress theme.

Steps

1. Open the style.css file in your WordPress theme
2. Edit the top portion of the commented section to anything you would like. Here is what our demo looks like:
   style.css

   PHP

   /* Theme Name: BootstrapWP Theme URI: https://bootstrapwp.com Author: Brad Williams Author URI: https://bootstrapwp.com Description: Awesome Bootstrap WordPress theme Version: 3.2.0 License: GNU General Public License v2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Text Domain: bootstrapwp Domain Path: /languages/ Tags: bootstrap, responsive, wordpress, left-sidebar, contact

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   /* Theme Name: BootstrapWP Theme URI: https://bootstrapwp.com Author: Brad Williams Author URI: https://bootstrapwp.com Description: Awesome Bootstrap WordPress theme Version: 3.2.0 License: GNU General Public License v2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Text Domain: bootstrapwp Domain Path: /languages/ Tags: bootstrap, responsive, wordpress, left-sidebar, contact

3. Create a new image that is 880×660 and named screenshot.png. Overwrite the current screenshot.png in your WordPress theme files
4. Done!

Notes from the Video

Here is a link to the WordPress codex that goes over the theme stylesheet. Here is a link to the WordPress codex that goes over the theme screenshot.

Feedback

Please let me know what you think of this tutorial and if you need help with anything.