What customization features do we have in the Premium or Business Plan?

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  jamesvalero · Member · Sep 16, 2014 at 11:01 pm

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  Hi, we are planning to work on a wp site and our business team likes two themes and wanted to know if we can use the layout of Avid[1] and use the hover-over effect from Puzzle[2]. We have in-house developers to do this but dont know what level of access we have (css, js, php templates) while being hosted on wordpress.com.

  [1] http://aviddemo.wordpress.com/
  [2] http://puzzledemo.wordpress.com/

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 17, 2014 at 10:07 am

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  Hi there. I don’t know if it will allow you to do what you want to do, but the only customization we can do on WordPress.com is to add/replace the theme’s CSS (the custom design upgrade included in both premium and business bundles give this ability). We don’t have any access to the underlying files, nor can you edit the theme’s stylesheets directly, only override them with your own CSS code. You also cannot add any JavaScript or Flash code, regardless of upgrade.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/

  With the exception of the specific plugins included in the business upgrade we also do not have the ability to install plugins:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  For anything more you’ll have to look into the self-hosted option using WordPress.org. With a self-hosted site you’ll be able to edit base files, and install custom themes and plugins, but you won’t have the tech support, etc. you have on WordPress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Sep 17, 2014 at 10:22 am

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  You are not allowed to access and modify js / php files on WordPress.com (even on the WordPress.com Business plan) due to security reasons.

  WordPress.com is a shared environment and allowing access to js /php has the potential to compromise the security of the whole environment.

  Self hosted WordPress.org seems to be the best fit for your requirements.