Title: Customizing A Theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Customizing A Theme

 *  [mbugera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbugera/)
 * (@mbugera)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-a-theme-7/)
 * I’ve been searching for themes from a variety of sources to match a current design
   that we have. It’s a very simple, block-type design.
 * None of the hundreds of themes I’ve found (both free and not free) do exactly
   what I need them to do to exactly match our design, but most do give me the CSS
   editable pages in the admin after I’ve installed them.
 * Am I to assume that this gives me the ability to code the exact look I’m wanting?
   And, are all themes usually editable, provided you know code?

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 *  [Caroline Moore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sixhours/)
 * (@sixhours)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-a-theme-7/#post-2364334)
 * Anything in the free directory, yes. For commercial themes, you’d have to check
   with the source first to be certain, but I would guess most are editable as well.
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-a-theme-7/#post-2364351)
 * when looking at themes not in the theme directory here, you want to look in the
   theme;s `functions.php` file for obfuscated code
    this code usually won’t let
   you edit footer and maybe other stuff
 * you can edit any theme’s `style.css`

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-a-theme-7/#post-2364351)
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