Nublet questions about wordpress

So I recently started learning WP and it seem to be a nice platform for... blogging. What I mean is that while its super-easy to publish a neat looking page from theme, it seems in fact to be quite difficult to customize it in any way to make it look unique and professional. So it`s basically mandatory to get involved with programming to produce neat looking websites.

If I need to build my own custom theme, whats the point in using WP in the first place? If I had the programming skills needed for building WP themes, I could just build my own websites and publish them. Or is there something I`m missing here?

You want to learn website designing ? or WP theme designing ? Tons of themes out there you can customize them to anything you like.

Nut-Nights said:

You want to learn website designing ? or WP theme designing ? Tons of themes out there you can customize them to anything you like.

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I want to build websites that look exactly the way I like. I`m basically asking if it`s easier to achieve this with WP or should I focus my efforts in learning web programming?

WP does a lot for you, it's arguably even more useful when you start to get into it's more complicated features. It's way easier to update code from the WP admin panel than it is to have to dig through raw folders constantly. Also easily lets you do things like create custom templates that can be reused easily - once you have the code setup it's very easy to create those actual individual pages and blog posts from those templates whereas if you're working with the raw files directly without a content management system (CMS) it's more of, to use a technical term, a god damn clusterfuck.

Makessense said:

it seems in fact to be quite difficult to customize it in any way to make it look unique and professional. So it`s basically mandatory to get involved with programming to produce neat looking websites.

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If you want to have more control over your site without needing to look at any code, you might look into fancy drag and drop plugins. I know there's like... the Divi builder... and a bunch of other ones. Can't recall names. They can do a lot for you if you don't want to touch any code.

Read the below link might be helpful for you (building the custom wordpress theme)
http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/building-custom-wordpress-theme