Title: Developing a theme from another theme
Last modified: October 7, 2022

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# Developing a theme from another theme

 *  [eligolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eligolf/)
 * (@eligolf)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-a-theme-from-another-theme/)
 * Hi,
 * I want to start developing WordPress websites for clients. I have been doing 
   it for myself for years for my own companies, friends etc but now wanted to go“
   more professional”. Previously I have often started with a theme template as 
   a base and then developed it from there to save some time for the basic setup
   stuff, and just focus more on the user specific needs.
 * Would this be considered ok from both a moral and legal point of view if I develop
   a theme for clients for money? I.e., take another theme as a base (say Hello 
   theme or Astra) and then develop it to a completely new solution. And in this
   process then of course change all the names to my own company name and remove
   stuff like Hello or Astra from the files, therefore not giving credit to the 
   base code.
 * If it would be considered wrong, what solution would you suggest to speed up 
   the process of setting up the basics? Of course I could create something from
   scratch and use as a template, but I would rather save me those 100s of hours
   🙂
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Everything else WordPress, this is not an Developing with
      WordPress topic

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-a-theme-from-another-theme/#post-16079325)
 * Do you know about [Child Themes](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/)?
 * Under the GPL, you would have to leave in place the credits and copyrights.
 *  Thread Starter [eligolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eligolf/)
 * (@eligolf)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-a-theme-from-another-theme/#post-16082722)
 * Yes I do, that is how I normally add changes to themes after I have created a
   baseline. So this is the normal, take a theme and then make all changes through
   a child theme? I will consider creating my own compeltely from scratch just because
   it’s fun, but good to know. Thank you Steven!

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