Theme Editing With WordPress.com

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    bbayer · Member ·

    I have been using WordPress using a non wordpress.com environment.
    It took awhile to figure out that the system has been dumbed down
    by eliminating Theme Editor (as best as I can figure out.)
    I’m curious why that is, and is it permanent.

    Also….I’d like to add a weather widget from weather underground.
    Is there any way to do that? (It works well, again, on a WP blog
    hosted elsewhere

    Thanks

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    boblets · Member ·

    The sticky on top of the forum might help.
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

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    bbayer · Member ·

    It does help.. Although, to tell you the truth, I would not, having read that (which I hadn’t and thanks for the reference) to mean that the Theme Editor — a rather neat basic feature of WordPress, or so I thought — was not available at WordPress.com. I guess that goes for the Weather Widget, too. I would think they could have made this a little more explicit. Like include the standard Theme Editor link under Design, with a page that says “This is WordPress.Com, dummy. Theme Editor? You’re not paying any thing and you want a Theme Editor, too? Just Move on. You don’t need any stinkin’ Theme Editor”

    “What you can do on WordPress.com is blog for free.” Well, yes….if you don’t include under the definition of “blogging” the ability to customize your presentation to the full extent permitted by the WordPress software.

    Thanks for the response. My question is now “resolved”.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    WordPress.com runs a multi-user version of wordpress which means everyone blogging here uses the same underlying theme and wordpress files. If one person changed or broke something in the underlying theme files, it would change or break it for everyone using that theme. That is why you cannot edit themes here at wordpress.com.

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    traxxtar · Member ·

    Even with a fixed theme, you can do some amazing customization with a little CSS or even ‘almost’ do an entire theme yourself with the sandbox theme.

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    bbayer · Member ·

    Well….All i wanted to do at this point was put an author email tag in the loop and
    add a weather widget (preferably from weather underground which works well with wordpress.
    Will “sandbox” help me to do either?

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    boblets · Member ·

    This is an apples or oranges discussion. Some cars have air-con, some do not. Some software have that functionality (and matching bugs) and some do not.

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    Depending on what you mean by author email tag in the “loop”?
    You cannot do any dynamic scripting for the reasons thesacredpath outlined.

    Sandbox will let you do alot of cool stuff.

    I doubt very much your weather widget will work, but I don’t know for sure.

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