Title: Using my skins
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Using my skins

 *  [karlirae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karlirae/)
 * (@karlirae)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-my-skins/)
 * I’ve got a b2 blog & have made a test subdomain. My domain is skinned & I’d like
   to keep it that way.
    On the test subdomain, all that’s there is the converted
   b2 blog w/ all the wp files & folders and such. Has anyone managed to use their
   own skins in wp? If so, how did you do it? Lol.

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-my-skins/#post-214580)
 * Have you upgraded to WordPress, since I believe that b2 isn’t being supported
   any more?
 * Here are some references that will help you upgrade and change your “skin” to
   a WordPress Theme. Many people have not only kept the same look on their site,
   they’ve actually improved it.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrade_1.2_to_1.5](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrade_1.2_to_1.5)
   
   [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/upgrade/upgrade_en.html](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/upgrade/upgrade_en.html)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/](http://codex.wordpress.org/)
 *  [notthatugly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notthatugly/)
 * (@notthatugly)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-my-skins/#post-214596)
 * [Support board for people still using b2](http://www.licklinux.com/cafelog/),
   though it’s all unofficial, you really should be using wordpress or b2evo instead
   etc. etc.
 *  Thread Starter [karlirae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karlirae/)
 * (@karlirae)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-my-skins/#post-214625)
 * I have already upgraded to WordPress & I want to use the skins I made for my 
   site before installing WordPress; the ones that worked when I had just b2.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-my-skins/#post-214628)
 * If you have WP 1.5.x you have to transform them into themes.
    See Themes and 
   Templates > [http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout](http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout)
 *  Thread Starter [karlirae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karlirae/)
 * (@karlirae)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-my-skins/#post-214630)
 * So in otherwords, I have to use WP themes for my blog?
    Nevermind then.
 *  [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * (@iand)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-my-skins/#post-214645)
 * If you replace all the b2 tags with equivalent wordpress ones it should be ok.
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-my-skins/#post-214647)
 * “So in otherwords, I have to use WP themes for my blog?”
 * No.
 * Though it’s not difficult to convert one’s pre-1.5 templates to a theme (in your
   case, *really* pre), you don’t have to. You just need an include for wp-blog-
   header.php (to WP-ize your template), and follow IanD’s advice.
 *  [notthatugly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notthatugly/)
 * (@notthatugly)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-my-skins/#post-214899)
 * Most WP tags are virtually identical to b2 ones anyway, so you shouldn’t have
   a problem. You don’t have to use the theme system at all if you don’t want to,
   but keep index.php in the root directory as you did with b2.
 * The ‘loop’ and (as Kafkaesqui mentioned) the call to blog-header.php in the very
   first line of your template will need to be updated to the WP versions, but other
   than that you need to change very little.

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