How many of us want our functioning WordPress site? I’m pretty sure all of us do. WordPress is the world's most famous content management service and its handy interface makes it extremely simple for non-developers to create their digital files. The only hard part is the PSD to WordPress code conversion. This little part takes up most of our time and hinders our progress.

To help you overcome this little sticking point, here’s a short guide:

1. Slicing your PSD’s: once you develop your PSD’s, you have to change them into something that developers can work on. This is nothing but making your PSD’s HTML or CSS compatible. This is the first step in the conversion process where a designer will slice your PSD’s. Slicing is nothing but cutting out a bit of your PSD using tools like Adobe Photoshop. This automatically converts the bit to HTML.

Example: you can slice the header part of your page, creating an HTML for the header of your site.

2. Coding the slices: the next part is to code your slices into the right place. This is termed as coding the board. Imagine a big jigsaw puzzle. Your sliced PSD's are the jigsaw puzzle that you will have to assemble to form your site. Web designers use HTML to develop a blueprint to figure out this puzzle and then use CSS to hold it in place.

3. Creating templates: PSD to WordPress conversion is where you create a custom WordPress theme and then upload it to WordPress. To do this, you need to turn the coded slices into ones that WordPress is familiar with. This is called templates. In this way, when you upload your design, WordPress can understand it and allot the right place for the same. Templates are recognized by WordPress and allow you to use its CMS to the full capacity. These are nothing but the various selections to the site which are saved as PHP files.

These include important chunks like Header, Search and Index. In this step, you will be converting your HTML slices to PHP files and saving them.

4. Added extras: your PSD is not going to cover the core functionality of your WordPress site. You also don’t want the developer to code every small thing. This is where WordPress is going to help. This service allows you to codes that are already there to add any special extras that you want to make it a great site. Your only concern should be getting them in the right place. You need to make sure you tag them so they end up in the ideal location. At this stage, your site has moved on from the coding stage to being a fully developed WordPress site.

5. Testing: this goes without saying, you have to test the functionality of your site and make sure it works in all browsers and compatible with all devices.

It is ideal to hire a professional to handle the conversion for you. Being a complex task and the most important one for a functional site, it’s easy for us to mess it up and make it dysfunctional. It is best to take the guidance of developers and get the job done easily.