Custom CSS Preview
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When I put in my style css from a theme I’ve purchased into the box to preview, the current them still appears.
Yes, I’ve clicked the button where it says to remove the current theme and just use the one inputted.
Please, help.
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CSS is theme specific. You cannot use the CSS from some other theme on a theme here, or a theme anywhere for that matter. Each theme designer decides how they are going to do the markup (XHTML) and the CSS, so no two themes are the same.
You have to work with a theme here and then create CSS overrides that will change the existing style of the theme here to look like what you want.
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I should also mention, NEVER paste the entire stylesheet into the CSS edit window here. What you do here is to make sure “add to exising…” and then you put into the CSS editor window only the specific selectors, and the specific declarations you are adding or changing. Anything that is not changing should not be put into the CSS window.
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Ok, I’m a little confused, bare with me.
I purchased a theme for WordPress from one of the many sites offering themes outside of WordPress online. I’ve learned now, that I cannot simply upload that theme onto WordPress anymore, unless I upgrade.
What I am trying to do here, is see what the layout might look like in the customization thing, so I can decide now if I want to purchase a WordPress upgrade.
Is what you’re saying is that, regardless if I upgrade, no other theme available on the web besides the ones exclusive to WordPress (from WordPress) will work on here?
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We cannot add themes at wordpress.COM. There is no upgrade that will allow that. We are limited to the 150+ (and growing) themes found in the dashboard under appearance > themes. Themes found on the internet are for self-hosted wordpress blogs using the software from wordpress.ORG.
Themes at wordpress.COM have to be modified to work within the restrictions here and to support the unique features.
The differences between wordpress.com and wordpress.org (self-hosted) sites.
If you want to use a theme from outside wordpress.com, you will have to self-host your own wordpress installation on a third-party hosting service like dreamhost, bluehost, etc. Figure about $10 to $25 per month, all costs considered.
Self-hosting comes with more responsibility. You have to do all installations, all upgrades, all backups and all troubleshooting. If something goes wrong, you have to figure it out and fix it.
WordPress has made it a lot easier to self-host, but there is more responsibility and it requires additional expertise.
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