CSS upgrade
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Hi all.
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Could you guys please tell me – a beginner, what the difference between HTML and CSS is ?.2.
If i buy the CSS upgrade – and use the sandbox theme, will i then be able to pick and choose between the hundreds of themes shown in the worldpress theme-viewer, or just themes made for that specific theme, and how do i change the theme – does the upgrade automaticly place an upload link on my dashboard somewhere ?. -
WordPress offers three different options.
(1) You can edit your theme’s css style sheet or create one of your own to change the appearance of your blog only if you purchase an upgrade and undertake css customization yourself.The upgrade is not recommended to bloggers who do not have css customization experience. Although there is a forum and other bloggers may volunteer to help you if needs be, there is no staff support provided for learning css customization.
The 15$ you pay to upgrade a wordpress.com blog enables you to to alter the appearance of your theme and but not the underlying php code. Purchasing the upgrade entitles you to customize css on one blog for one year.
CSS customization can be used to improve on any existing theme; you can define your own classes for use in posts; you can select the Sandbox theme and build on one of the Minimalist layouts or, opt for no stylesheet and do it all yourself. If you feel you are up to the challenge of customizing a theme then these link, link, link will be helpful. There are also css resources that you can access listed in the FAQs blog.
(2) If you don’t purchase the upgrade, you can alter the appearance of your theme only through the use of customized headers and sidebar widgets. Note that if you do not opt for the upgrade then this link has information on point for you to read.
(3) Although some themes at wordpress.org and wordpress.com may appear to be the same they are not; the software is different. The “please read me first before posting” sticky at the head of the forum outlines the differences between wordpress.com blogs and wordpress.org blogs which are on different code bases.
If you do not wish to use one of the themes made available at wordpress.com through your admin section -> Dashboard -> Presentation -> Themes then you can choose to undertake css customizing a wordpress.com theme or make your own, or you can move to self hosting or a web host and altering a free wordpress.org template.And if you are new to wordpress.com then this link will be useful to you because it contains links to the basic resources we use here.
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HTML is programming language that certain parts of your website is built on. CSS is the stylesheet that controls the way things look for colors and sizes on your blog.
The CSS upgrade will only allow you to create the way the page looks and is for people that know how to change the code in their CSS sheet to style the page. It doesn’t supply a ‘cookie cutter’ way to change your site and is based off code and not a graphical interface. It also doesn’t allow you to download wordpress themes, but rather the ability to change the code to look like those themes if you know how to change CSS properly.
Trent
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Thank you Timethief,
if i understand you correctly, even whith an upgrade, i will still have to use one of the default themes in dashboard > presentation, and i will then be able to customize one of them – and only one of them ?. -
Thanks Trent,
now im beginning to understand, the CSS is pure “makeup”, and not – say the with of the page ?. -
The CSS upgrade refers to one of your blogs, not one template only. You can do as much tweaking as you like with the CSS upgrade, and keep using different templates, but it only applies to one blog.
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Thanks Raincoaster, sorry for not being clear enough.
What i ment was, that it will have to be one of the themes in dashboard > presentation, and not one from WordPress.org, since the coding is different. -
Yes, it has to be one of the WP.com provided themes. The upgrades don’t give you access to non-WP.com options although if you’re good at CSS you can dupe them is my understanding.
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Oh – one last thing,
“Trent” – i read your comment again “HTML is programming language that certain parts of your website is built on. CSS is the stylesheet that controls the way things look for colors and sizes on your blog.”, my comment was this “Thanks Trent, now im beginning to understand, the CSS is pure “makeup”, and not – say the with of the page ?.”, i gues i was wrong about NOT being able to change the width of the page ?. -
You should be able to modify the width of the theme with the CSS upgrade. I say “should be” as some of the themes have hardcoding within the php file. Which theme are we looking at and I can check for you.
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Hi drmike,
no theme in peticular yet, just trying to figure out what can be done whith the themes on wordpress.com – compared to “Blogger”. -
You *should* be able to modify the width in any theme. usually that setting is within the CSS file and not hardcoded. I don’t want to say 100% able to as we ran into a theme a couple of weeks ago where the designer had done inline styles for something specific and in that case there was no way to get around it.
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Hi drmike – thank you.
The theme on this page is located at WordPress.com, whitch should mean that it is compatible whith a blog hosted on WordPress.com, would it be possible to get this theme, and how would i go about getting it – and setting it up, would be nice if it were one of the default themes !. -
The only themes available here at wordpress.com are found here -> Presentation -> Themes. It would be helpful if you would state which theme you are referring to. What is the name of it please?
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Hi Timethief.
I know where the themes for wordpress.com are, but thank you, i also know that these are the only ones you can use for a wordpress.com hosted Blog, i just wondered and wished, that there was a way to get the theme we are looking at right now, the theme used by wordpress.com itself, this site, im sorry to make such a big thing out of it, since i problably already know the answer, not possible, wordpress wouldnt allow it, since it is the official wordpress.com theme, and your blog could be mistaken for an official wordpress blog, but if they were to allow it, would it be possible to tweak one of the default themes to look like it, or the quick and easy way, get the CSS or whatever from the people at wordpress, and then copy and paste it, after buying a CSS-upgrade ofcourse. -
Do you mean the theme of the FORUM? That’s totally different software, and no, we can’t use anything like that on our blogs. The functionality is totally different as well, and that’s in the HTML, not the CSS.
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