I honestly never thought I’d try making my own WordPress theme.

I’ve always wanted to get away from page builders and just have something simpler that works the way I want. But building a theme myself always felt like one of those things that was way above my level.

Then AI happened.

So I started messing around with it locally, asking AI to help me write parts of the theme, changing things, breaking things, fixing them, and somehow… it’s actually starting to look pretty good.

I know AI-generated code can be messy, insecure, or just plain wrong sometimes, so I’m definitely not pretending this is production-ready. I probably wouldn’t use it for real client work without someone who actually knows what they’re doing reviewing it first.

But still, seeing something I had in my head actually show up and work inside WordPress was such a cool feeling.

That was probably the part I enjoyed the most.

Even if I never end up using this theme for anything serious, I’m kind of amazed that AI made me try something I probably never would’ve touched before.

Anyone else here doing the same thing?