• I’m using wordpress.com, and just beginning to set up a static website (ie not a blog). I know next to nothing. Can someone tell me whether it is possible to modify the theme on one of the two pages of my site, but not on the other? (And, of course, any hints on where to start looking to educate myself to do it would be greatly appreciated!)

    Thanks.

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  • yes it is possible to do what you want to do.

    WordPress has confitional tags. So in your templates you can say things like

    if ( is_page('my-special-page') ) {
       do this
    } else {
      do that
    }

    In terms of how and where you place that, and what do this and do that are, you will have to do a lot of study.

    This is a very good blog/website WP Beginner http://www.wpbeginner.com/

    Check their archives to see if what you are looking for has already been covered.

    Thread Starter lingosport

    (@lingosport)

    Thanks very much Steve. This is very clear and very helpful — I guess I’ll get to work. One more thing: is it possible to modify a theme in the free version on wordpress.com, or do I need to be using the version downloaded from wordpress.org? Thanks again.

    Hi

    I’m not quite clear on your new question. I don’t think (not positive) you can download themes from WordPress.com

    Automattic, the company behind WordPress, just started a new service where for $99 they will move your WordPress.com site to a self-hosted WP site. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/guided-transfers/

    If you want to keep your theme exactly as you have it this might be a way to go. I don’t know anyone who’s used the service so far so I don’t know details on how it works.

    I’m using wordpress.com

    FULLSTOP

    You’re in the wrong support forum. This is the WordPress.ORG support forum, for self-hosted WordPress.

    You should try the WordPress.COM support forum.

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