Title: Question about theme Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Question about theme * [smorton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smorton/) * (@smorton) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-theme/) * I bought “Private Lawyer Theme” from Template Monster. [http://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes/49403.html](http://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes/49403.html). I noticed that Templatemonster recommends that I purchase MotoPress Drag and Drop Editor from them for $29.00. I thought this was included with WordPress. Am I wrong? * I am just a beginner and got way ahead of myself. I bought the theme because a web designer told me he could really customize this theme but he wasn’t able to. * Now, I have the theme and thought I would try to make it work myself and this is proving to be quite a challenge. Is this MotoPress Drag and Drop Editor worthwhile? * Do I need to spend a ton of time learning how to customize this theme? Should I try to hire someone else? * Any input appreciated. * Thank you. * Smorton Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [Luke Stacey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daftduke/) * (@daftduke) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-theme/#post-5404007) * Hi there! * Motopress Drag and Drop Editor lets you make customization without typing any code. It is not necessary to purchase this plugin in order to customize your theme. * I would suggest you read about creating a [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) for your site, get that set up, and make the changes using CSS. * If you post a link to your site and explain what changes you want to make we can help you with the correct code to use. * I hope that helps! * Luke the Daft Duke * Thread Starter [smorton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smorton/) * (@smorton) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-theme/#post-5404123) * Thanks for the reply. I will read up about child themes. * Is CSS hard to learn? * I am using Bitnami until I get closer to having a finished product done. The could be years-I hope not. * Is it difficult to move my website from Bitnami which is local on my computer to a host? * Sorry if I am going beyond the original question. * Thank you for your response. * Smorton * [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/) * (@crouchingbruin) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-theme/#post-5404139) * Did this web designer have any experience customizing WordPress themes in the past? Or was it because this particular theme is a commercial theme? Many commercial themes will change the underlying structure of the “typical” WordPress layout a lot to make it more difficult for their customers to change them on their own. Sometimes the reason is so they can earn some additional income by customizing the theme for you (you’ve probably noticed that they charge $99 to change the color scheme, which seems pretty high to me). So if the web designer had difficulty customizing the theme, the chances are very good that you will have as much of a problem, if not more, since you’re a WordPress beginner. You may be able to easily create a child theme, but your changes to it might not work as easily as you think they should because of the way they’ve implemented the theme. * There’s a good CSS tutorial [here](http://www.w3schools.com/css/), and probably 90% of what you might want to change can be done using CSS. If you are strictly making CSS changes, you don’t have to create a child theme, you can just use a plugin like Jetpack or [Custom CSS Manager](http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/), but if you want to make more drastic changes, you’ll have to resort to creating a child theme. * Thread Starter [smorton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smorton/) * (@smorton) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-theme/#post-5404140) * The web designer told me he could modify the template and my goal was to simplify it and also have a photo of the day like I have on my old website [http://www.stevenbolton.net/photos.htm](http://www.stevenbolton.net/photos.htm) * He started to make excuses and was not upfront with me and ended up telling me that he would need the source code to make the photo of the day page work. Then he charged me way more than he said he was going to. * As old and outdated as my old website is (made with Frontpage, can I somehow transfer it to WordPress so I could at least change the photo of the day while updating a new website. * I need to learn a lot more than I do now. * I did notice that TemplateMonster does charge 99.00 for the color change. * I would be fairly content to use the same pages as my old website but update it so the new theme is there. * The web designer’s efforts are here: [http://pravusmedia.com/bolton/](http://pravusmedia.com/bolton/) * Thanks for any input. * Smorton * Thread Starter [smorton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smorton/) * (@smorton) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-theme/#post-5404148) * I got the theme loaded and it works well. * I think he was not able to make custom pages maybe. * I have hope. * Thanks * Smorton Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Question about theme’ is closed to new replies. * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [smorton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smorton/) * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-theme/#post-5404148) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics