Title: WordPress – with no theme?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress – with no theme?

 *  Resolved [deko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deko/)
 * (@deko)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-with-no-theme/)
 * Can I run wp with no theme?
 * I have an html shell with plenty of room – I just want to plug in the posts and
   comments, and even bring up the single inside the html page.
 * There is no footer, and the “header” is simple enough that it does not need to
   be generated.
 * Can I do this by carefully inserting template tags?
 * Should I modify index.php so the first line is:
 * define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false);
 * Other suggestions?

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 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-with-no-theme/#post-401165)
 * You kind of have to have a theme to make wordpress work 🙂 A theme is basically
   just some HTML into which wordpress sticks the posts.
 * If you don’t have a theme, wordpress uses the default theme which, I’m led to
   believe, is stored internally as a supplement.
 * Your best bet is to modify an existing theme to make it as simple as you need
   it.
 *  Thread Starter [deko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deko/)
 * (@deko)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-with-no-theme/#post-401166)
 * So don’t run wordpress naked…
 * Fair enough. I should be able to hack the default theme and get what I’m looking
   for.
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-with-no-theme/#post-401169)
 * It’s not really a case of “you shouldn’t” but more, actually, that it’s impossible
   🙂 WordPress will just default its own HTML to show the posts, since you can’t
   have a webpage without HTML!
 * I don’t think there’s a default stylesheet, though, so you’d get the ugly Times
   New Roman default that most browsers have.

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