How to get RID of Sandbox all together!

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  thinkclassy · Member · Nov 11, 2009 at 1:20 am

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  Hi, I have my own CSS and the Sandbox theme keeps interfering with it, as you can see. I’ve tried changing the fonts to black but I just want any influence of the Sandbox theme completely gone.

  I have paid for the CSS upgrade and my own domain, how can I get this into what I want? (A 3 column blog with my header and my pages up top?)

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  thinkclassy · Member · Nov 11, 2009 at 1:20 am

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  my blog is http://www.thinkclassy.com

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  thinkclassy · Member · Nov 11, 2009 at 1:22 am

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  And also, how in gods name do I get rid of the Skip To Content up top there?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 11, 2009 at 1:30 am

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  You need to work the CSS while looking at the markup to figure out what is controlled where. A quick look using the Firebug Firefox add-on reveals that the “skip to content” is <div class="skip-link"> Doing a “display:none;” on that should hide it quite nicely.

  You are using Sandbox as a theme. You cannot completely get rid of it. If you did, you would have a CSS file applied to nothing.

  If the sandbox theme is interfering with your CSS then your CSS is not written to work with sandbox.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 11, 2009 at 1:50 am

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  One other suggestion is to do a search on the web for “3-column sandbox skin for wordpress,” look through them and find one that has the basic structure you are looking for, and then start from that as a base for your site. It is way easier than writing it all from scratch.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 11, 2009 at 1:57 am

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  One other thing, if you are using a skin you found as a base, there are three versions of sanbox here and you have to make sure you are using the correct version for the skin you are using. Many skins out there have not been updated and were designed for 1.0 or 1.1 and may not work cleanly with 1.6.1 due to some structural changes in the markup.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 11, 2009 at 2:08 am

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  OK, apparently you have downloaded a theme for self-hosted blogs and then tried to apply it to the sandbox theme here at wordpress.COM. Since there is no way to tell what changes the theme designer might have made to the markup, there is absolutely no guarantee that the CSS for the downloaded theme will even come close to working here. The sandbox themes here has been modified to accommodate features and such that are specific to wordpress.COM and trying to use a CSS file for a self-hosted blog will typically cause issues.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 11, 2009 at 2:31 am

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  If you want to start fresh with no theme functionality at all, you’ll need to leave WordPress.com and start with some empty webspace. You will have to pay for this.