Editing someone else's CSS

  • beardybot

    (@beardybot)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m aware this has almost certainly been asked before, but I’ve browsed the forums, googled and even binged (ugh) it and had no luck. I’m sure this is just me getting old, but please, entertain me.

    If you’ve downloaded a free theme from someone else, are you allowed to edit the css and ‘make it your own’, or are you limited to the preset theme options?

    I’m quite new to WordPress, but with everything else I’ve used there’s some kind of attribution, Creative Commons, GNU, whatever… none of the themes seem to say anything about editing, so I hoped I might get an answer here.

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  • Bush

    (@manishkumarruhil)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Play whichever way you like until unless some legal copyright and restriction from editing both are specified. Almost all themes which you will find (at least the free ones) are actually meant for ‘make it your own’ purpose and they do actually encourage it.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    10 years, 10 months ago

    If you’ve downloaded a free theme from someone else

    It depends on the theme authors intentions. All WordPress PHP code is GPL’ed licensed but the CSS may not or does not have to be. Check with the author, no one here can advice you about that.

    Be careful where you download themes from. There are a lot of Very Bad People™ out there who have no qualms about compromising your WordPress installation to add spammy links or worse to your site.

    http://www.chipbennett.net/2010/12/10/only-download-wordpress-themes-from-trusted-sources/

    If you’re starting out with WordPress then you may want to use one of these themes instead.

    http://wordpress.org/themes/

    Any of those themes can be modified anyway you like although it is recommended that you create a child theme and modify that child theme instead.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

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