Customizing my WordPress website to look like my current one.
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How do I customize my wordpress website to look like my current website?
Blog url: http://ldsdaniel.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Not much we can say without a link to the current website, starting with http:// to make it clickable.
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I would like to be able to log into my wordpress account and then make a post that would be able to come up on my own website. If you click on the above link, you will be able to see that I’ve tried doing something but it’s not quite there. Very frustrating.
On top of that, the archives refused to look anything like the one I built. How do I loop them all together?
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re: http://ldsdaniel.wordpress.com/
You cannot build or use your own custom theme built from scratch at WordPress.com.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/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.
If 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/
See also > WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: The Differences > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Re: connecting the two
Does your website have the ability to draw from an RSS feed? If so, then this is the RSS feed for the blog linked to your user name for posts (entries) http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/feed/ and this is the RSS feed Url for your comments http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/comments/feed/If your website is NOT equipped to draw from RSS feeds then do be aware we do not provide support for that. We support only wordpress.COM free hosted blogs here.
You will have to write something in PHP or javascript to do that. Here are a couple options:
http://www.blastcasta.com/add-news-to-your-website.aspx
http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/2006/10/09/rss-feeds-adding-a-feed-to-a-website-using-php -
So if I understand you correctly, you’re saying that I’m NOT ABLE to customize or integrate my WordPress site into my own website.
Just that I’ve seen it on other people’s website before. How did they do it?
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Thanks for your prompt attention to my post. However, I do not mean embedded into my website. I just want it to look like the rest of my website.
Sorry about the mis-communication.
Thank you, again.
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You’ll have to learn CSS editing and tweak it yourself with the paid upgrade.
Sometimes people have software from WordPress.ORG that they put into their paid web space and they can customize the theme that way (again, only if they know how to edit themes). Sometimes people have a link in their website that goes to WordPress.com blogs.
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Yes, raincoaster. That really helps and I’ll definitely look into that. I don’t mind paying for that space. I think I have a slight inkling what you are talking about. That’s great!
THANK YOU!
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