How to develop a new theme for wordpress.com

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    nvshah286 · Member ·

    If i want to develop a theme for wordpress.com, can i do that? If so , waht is the procedure

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    We don’t have access to the underlying PHP or HTML here on WordPress.com and cannot upload external themes. All of the themes available on WordPress.com have undergone customization by the Theme Team et al to work in this multi-user environment.

    However, you might want to look at skinning either one of these barebones templates with CSS:
    Sandbox
    Toolbox

    Then, anyone with the CSS upgrade will be able to use your CSS skin.

    If that is not what you mean, I apologize.

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    jayantr7 · Member ·

    Here at WordPress.com, you can’t straightforwardly develop a theme and use it. As ‘justjennifer’ said, you can just customize the CSS files. If you’re really serious into theme-making, then consider submitting your theme to the WordPress Theme Team and if they like it to the heart then they may include it in their gallery.

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    timethief · Member ·

    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/

    See also > WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: The Differences > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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