How to help someone edit their theme?
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I’ve looked around here and there and learned that I can and only can edit my themes with the Custom CSS Upgrade purchasable at a price of $15.
The problem is, I don’t exactly have the means to afford an international trade, therefore I suppose CSS Upgrade is out of the question.I was about to give up when I thought of somehow submitting my own work in the same manner as the current collection of 77 themes, which can be found here http://%5Byour-ID%5D.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php.
Question: Is there any way I can submit my own theme and have someone use it (like when you click on one of those 77 themes). If not, is there any other free ways I can help another person edit their theme to their liking?
Living in a 3rd world country is rather inconvenient at times like this.Back-up question: If I somehow manage to purchase a CSS Upgrade, is it possible to buy it for another account’s use, supposing I have no whatsoever access/rights/information regarding that account? Again, I’m aiming to edit someone’s theme, not my own.
Thank you for your time and happy blogging. :]
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You can submit your own, GPL licensed theme, and wait and see if WordPress.com staff approves it.
If you are fluent in CSS, you could always use the free Preview to make a skin for Sandbox and make the code downloadable. They used to run contests for Sandbox skins, and there’s always a lot of interest in that.
If someone liked the skin you made, they could buy you the CSS upgrade as a gift.
And no, the upgrade is per blog, not per user.
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Just to make it clear, my options are:
– Submit my own GPL licensed theme: requires approval from wordpress.com which suggests decent quality requirement (unlikely)
– Use the free Preview to edit the codes to my liking and somehow make the theme downloadable (interested)In the second case, will my target (my friend) be able to apply those codes to their theme without the CSS Upgrade?
I’ve read here, http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/, about the Sandbox and learned that:
* You can just use it as-is and have a super-cool, truly minimalist theme.
* You can totally customize it with CSS alone—no need to bother with other files.
*** You can use the functions, theme files, et al, as pleases you—even for your own theme.
* You can use it as a good place to learn a few things about CSS, XHTML, and perhaps even PHP.Two things to note:
1/ No I am not yet even familiar with CSS, let alone fluent. I’m determined to learn though, and so far it doesn’t seem too challenging, I’m not sure about later.
2/ When I mentioned “buying an upgrade for another user”, I meant something like that Upgrade gifting feature. I pay money, another person gets to edit their CSS and save and what-not. Is this possible?Thank you, this really gave me some hope. xD
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– yes
– no. You can use the free preview to develop modifications to the CSS of any theme here, although Sandbox offers you the greatest freedom. That doesn’t give you the option of making a downloadable theme. Themes include functionality. CSS alone does not; it’s just a skin, just a look, like changing the wallpaper without changing the walls.No-one is able to apply those CSS modifications without the paid upgrade.
Everything you read pertaining to Sandbox is not applicable, because you read about the WordPress.ORG version, which is totally different from ours. Here we do not have access to the PHP at all. You don’t get to tinker with functions, just with the look.
1 don’t do anything till you’ve read the references listed at the top of the CSS forum
2 yes, it’s quite possible. Someone bought the upgrade for me, someone else (devblog) more or less handed me a skin totally perfect, and all I did was paste it into the CSS box. Note that it’s unusual for that to work the first time, but devblog is a genius.
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