Custom Design

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  sbdhnsk · Member · Sep 18, 2011 at 2:25 pm

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  Hi,

  I want to change the fonts of my blog, but I have no “custom design” choice in my “Appearance” list (it ends at “editor”). How come? What can I do?

  Many thanks in advance for any advice.

  Best regards

  Umberto

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 18, 2011 at 2:39 pm

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  Your account is 16 minutes old and is linked to an empty blog.

  We need the URL of the blog in question to provide you with accurate help.

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  sbdhnsk · Member · Sep 18, 2011 at 2:54 pm

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  This is the blog I’m working on :

  http://peopleandplaces.se/wp-admin/

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  timethief · Member · Sep 18, 2011 at 4:23 pm

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  The custom design upgrade is a paid upgrade that applies to one blog and for one year only. Unless your purchase it and renew it annually you cannot CSS edit the theme on your blog and make any changes to appearance.

  The custom design upgrade Appearance > Custom design does not provide access to the underlying theme and template files. We cannot edit theme or templates as all blogs wearing the same theme here are using the same underlying template. Only Staff can access those files and edit and every edit they make affects all blogs wearing the same theme.

  There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we cannot upload theme. Those on the internet are for WordPress.org installs which run on different software.

  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.

  If you have CSS editing experience the upgrade will allow you to stylize the appearance of themes you find here > Appearance > Themes 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.

  If you do purchase the custom design upgrade > Store > note that 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/

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  airodyssey · Member · Sep 18, 2011 at 4:30 pm

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  http://ismyblogworking.com/peopleandplaces.se

  Peopleandplaces.se is a self-hosted WordPress blog and you are in the wrong forum… Please ask your question at http://wordpress.org/support

  You are currently in a forum for blogs hosted by WordPress.com and our answers will not apply to your situation. (Which is why you don’t see any Custom Design option).

  Thanks and I hope you find a solution to your problem soon.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 18, 2011 at 4:31 pm

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  ~~airodyssey
  DOH … I did not check. Thanks for the great catch.

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  airodyssey · Member · Sep 18, 2011 at 4:45 pm

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  No problem, tt :-)