Creating a theme

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  mgunasek · Member · Jul 16, 2011 at 2:10 pm

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  Hi,

  Is there any theme out there on wordpress that has the layout of this site http://www.the8thstitch.com/ I have tried everything and looked everywhere for a theme like this but I can’t find it. I like how the custom menu is vertical on the side and it can also be hidden if desired. Any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 16, 2011 at 3:35 pm

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  You are limited to the 120++ Themes you see in Dashboard >> Appearance here at WordPress.COM so that is all the farther you need to look. All the Themes have a Preview feature so you can get a better feel for how they look.

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  airodyssey · Member · Jul 16, 2011 at 3:38 pm

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  If you feel really adventurous and know CSS pretty well, you could take an empty theme (like Sandbox or Toolbox) and tweak it to your liking with the Custom Design upgrade.

  And g’morning auxclass :-)

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 16, 2011 at 3:45 pm

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  Morning airodyssey – yes the CSS upgrade would let them change the look also – they could change any of the Themes if one of the Themes was close but not quite what they wanted –

  The CSS has a try before you buy feature (test) – or they could find a Theme they liked and ask in the CSS section of the Forum if the changes they want to do can be done.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 16, 2011 at 3:50 pm

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  As the other Volunteers have pointed out you cannot build or use your own custom theme built from scratch at WordPress.com, and you can’t use stylesheets from any other theme as CSS editing is theme specific here. You cannot build or use your own custom theme built from scratch at WordPress.com.

  The only themes we can use are those found here > Appearance > Themes
  This is a multiuser blogging platform. All blogs wearing the same theme are using the same underlying template and we cannot access the underlying files and edit templates or themes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/

  There are two free themes, Sandbox and Toolbox designed to allow maximum flexibility for CSS editing and creating new “skins”. Toolbox is more modern and includes a lot of support for CSS3 and HTML5, so it is really only limited by your skills and knowledge.

  As you have CSS editing experience the upgrade will allow you to stylize the appearance of themes you find here > Appearance > Themes, but will not allow you to change the functionality, by editing the underlying template. It does not allow you to remove footer links to the theme designer or to WordPress.com. Also note that CSS is theme specific, so you cannot use the CSS stylesheets from other themes with the themes at WordPress.COM. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css/

  When you alter a theme’s stylesheet, you only need to put in the Editor the modification/additions to the CSS, not the entire thing. Read this for more info:
  http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/