Online WordPress Theme Generators

As we continue our series on Online Generators, we begin to focus more on sites that can provide more than just single components of a site. Today’s entry touches on an area that interests most of us … the ability to create your own WordPress Theme online.
One general comment is that we were very pleased by what was available today. But I personally feel that there is still some effort needed to make these sorts of tools easy to use for the masses.
We hope you enjoy our selection.

Theme Press

We started with Theme Press as our first WordPress Theme Generator because this site is what inspired us to research the topic. We liked the possibility of being able to upload our HTML templates to a site that could convert them to a WordPress template. What we quickly realized was that this site is meant for people that have some kind of website coding knowledge.
As developers, and with the advancements made by the WordPress team, we find it easier to modify existing WordPress themes than to submit our code to such a generator.
This tool does have some potential. But compared to the other tools that we discovered, it just wasn’t worth paying $10 at the end to download our WordPress Theme using this tool. Perhaps further revisions of this online tool will smoke the competition.

WP Theme Generator
This online WordPress Theme Generator has probably received the most publicity on the Internet thus far. They offer a tool bar down the left hand side where you can change the setting for the look and feel of your WP Theme, and then see the results on the right side.
We found this tool very simple and easy to use. But it is also a bit limiting when you consider the various option available to a WP Theme Designer. But it certainly get an A+ for ease of use.

Theme Generator – beta

This WordPress Theme Generator was a personal favorite. The expanding menus on the left hand side are very intuitive and easy to use. They offer you most options available and are broken down into the different areas of a WordPress Theme. Changes made in the menu are immediately visible in the theme. Also offered are some color templates to help get you started. Each of the color elements can be changed as you get into each of the areas of the theme.
The best way to experience this Online Generator is to play with it. It’s free and when you’re done, your WordPress Theme is saved with the click of a mouse button.