I am new to wordpress.com.I want to develop a custom theme.

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  prasad9876 · Member · Nov 18, 2022 at 2:53 pm

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  I am new to wordpress.com.I want to develop a custom theme from scratch. Need some tutorials or information regarding that.

  WP.com: Yes
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  staartmees · Member · Nov 18, 2022 at 2:57 pm

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  If you want to use a custom theme on the wordpress.com platform, you must at least upgrade to the Business Plan, https://wordpress.com/pricing/.
  But you could install the open source software wordpress.org locally on your computer, https://wordpress.org/support/article/installing-wordpress-on-your-own-computer/, and develope your custom theme there. To know more about theme developement, https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

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  prasad9876 · Member · Nov 18, 2022 at 3:09 pm

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  So are the theme development for wordpress.org and wordpress.com differs or both same?

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  staartmees · Member · Nov 18, 2022 at 3:43 pm

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  They differs in some way. WordPress.com is a shared platform as wordpress.org is selfhosted. To use a custom theme on the wordpress.com platform, you need at least the Business Plan and there aren’t that much people using that plan compared to our other plans.

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  prasad9876 · Member · Nov 18, 2022 at 3:46 pm

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  Okay.Can u share any custom theme development tutorials from udemy or any platform? I wanted to start developmemt of my website.

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  staartmees · Member · Nov 18, 2022 at 4:17 pm

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  I gave you a link in a previous reply, https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/i-am-new-to-wordpress-com-i-want-to-develop-a-custom-theme/#post-3889372