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Uploading CSS Templates on Wordpress Hosted Blog
I'd like to customize my CSS with a template I found. The template requires that I ftp its directory tree into the wordpress directory of the site, but the only customization option I found is a form entry. Is this the only way to customize CSS? What about the custom images that go with CSS templates?
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Inappropriate?It's been a while since I looked into customizing the templates on WordPress.com blogs, but I'm pretty sure you can't upload a whole theme.
However, if you're handy with code, you could upload the component images using the regular "Upload" section of the post writing screen, and customize the CSS code to point to the right locations. It will probably be a lot of work to make the CSS work with the HTML you're given, but I believe it's doable. -
Inappropriate?Isn't there an option somewhere on WordPress to edit the CSS without any FTP access? Look around, I'm sure there is. Let's just hope the CHMOD is set to 777.
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Inappropriate?Wordpress uses a great template system that is easy to use once you get the hang of it. All the structure and look and feel of the site is controlled by the template you choose. That selection is made under the Appearance section of the admin. That choice points to the template folder and the php, css, images, and javascript files in that folder. To make changes to your site, you make changes to those files. You can reference images that reside in your template folder (usually in an "images" subdirectory) from your stylesheet. I would recommend spending a little time in the Codex at wordpress.org and then poke around in a template to get the feel for where things are and how they work together.
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Oops! My response was relevant to a self-hosted wordpress blog. You have a lot less customization potential with a hosted blog.
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Inappropriate?Actually, it is not clear whether you are talking about "templates" or "themes."
Wordpress allows the use of both. Dave was talking, I think, about "themes."
You can use a template within a theme to cause certain Pages and Categories to look different from the others served up normally by the theme.
For instance, if your theme is a 3-column design and has a blue header and blogroll and category listing and latest comments listing, every page the theme normally serves will have a blue header, blogroll, category listing and latest comments listing.
However, using the templates function in wp-admin, you could instruct Wordpress to render a specific page -- or all pages within a specific category -- with no header, no blogroll, no category listing, no comments listing and only one column. And you could define different typestyles and colors for the page(s) rendered under that template.
Let us know which you are interested in, themes or templates, so we can help you further.
Here's a pretty good tutorial on how to create a custom template. (It's even easier, though, if you are able to acquire one already written and tested and upload it): How to build a custom Page template in Wordpress
