Title: Customizing WordPress
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Customizing WordPress

 *  [hippiekitty218](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hippiekitty218/)
 * (@hippiekitty218)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wordpress-3/)
 * Hi, I just got WordPress installed, but I really can’t figure out how to customize
   themes or anything. I’ve read tutorials & did what they said, but it never works.
   I really just want my blog to match the rest of my site. Is there anyone out 
   there willing to help me create/code a theme that will allow my blog to match
   my site. I know it’s not hard, but I just don’t know how to do it. Please help
   me if you can, I would appreciate it SO much! Email me here: [Webmiss@Hippie-Kitty.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wordpress-3/Webmiss@Hippie-Kitty.com?output_format=md)&
   I will show you what I want it to look like. (It’s not my current website layout,
   I going to put out a new one as soon as I get my WordPress blog working) THANKS
   SO MUCH!

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 *  [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/)
 * (@rudolf45)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wordpress-3/#post-546406)
 * It is not hard but if you don’t know basic html and css – it might seem _very_
   hard!
    If you search you’ll find a lot of re-occuring advices: – find a theme
   that has a layout that is very close to what you want – start altering the CSS
   file (colors, font, bg etc.) to get the look of your existing site – lots of 
   trial and error and always have the Codex open in another window
 *  Thread Starter [hippiekitty218](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hippiekitty218/)
 * (@hippiekitty218)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wordpress-3/#post-546414)
 * I know basic html & css. But I just don’t get all the coding having to do with
   WordPress & the whole template thing. My site is set up where all the pages open
   up in an iframe, including my blog. So I just need my WordPress blog to be set
   up to look like the rest of the pages & I just can’t make it work that way. All
   the themes I’ve see are for stand alone blogs not ones that are in an iframe 
   of a site.
 *  [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/)
 * (@rudolf45)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wordpress-3/#post-546428)
 * Styling your blog with a theme – has nothing to do with iframes. HTML markup 
   and CSS are the same whether you display you blog as “stand alone” or in iframe.
 * Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about iframes because I never use them, 
   so I can’t help. On the other hand I know for sure many WP users did what you
   aim for: creating a theme that looks exactly like their existing site.
 *  [pramclub](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pramclub/)
 * (@pramclub)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wordpress-3/#post-546486)
 * This is an excellent tutorial I’ve just followed, which covers how themes work,
   and how to edit or create your own.
 * [http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/](http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/)

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