Am I allowed to Modify a template?

  • gopanthers

    (@gopanthers)


    14 years ago

    If I find a theme (a free one found on WordPress.org) I’d like to start with, am I allowed to drastically modify it for my own usage. At what point does it become “a new theme”? I’m not planning on selling any themes but I just can’t find a perfect theme and my attempts to make my own from scratch have failed, so I want to start with an existing theme structure that works (like a sidebar that takes widgets) but drastically change the design to what I want.

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    14 years ago

    you can do anything you like with them modification-wise

    techooze

    (@techooze)

    14 years ago

    you can modify the theme to any extent for your own use

    Thread Starter gopanthers

    (@gopanthers)

    14 years ago

    Thanks.

    Now just so I know. Assuming I’ve done a lot of tweaking so that it really looks very different from the original theme, what if I’m so proud of the work that I now want to share it with others as a brand new theme? Technically even if it looks very different there’s still a bunch of somebody else’s code in there, especially the widget sidebar section that I’m having so much trouble with. Can I still offer up “my” new theme to share with others even though it’s not 100% mine from scratch?

    steelfrog

    (@steelfrog)

    14 years ago

    gopanthers, I would get in touch with the theme’s developer and ask. Some people would welcome that, others wouldn’t.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    14 years ago

    you can still offer the theme as long as you keep GPL licensing and author code comments

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    14 years ago

    when I used to do that, I just included in the style.css description ‘Based on blah blah theme by so and so’

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    14 years ago

    when I used to do that, I just included in the style.css description ‘Based on blah blah theme by so and so

    that’s perfect

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