Question Changing a Word Press Theme - Virtual Assistant Forums

Your Virtual Wizard · #1 (**permalink**) 01-02-2009

Someone has asked me if they can have their colors changed on a word press theme, add pages, discussion plugins and audio. They have a pre-made wordpress theme already and they do not like it. The way I see it is they would have to hire a programmer to either create a custom theme or modify the one they have already.

Can anyone tell me if this is so and if not, what other alternatives they might have?

Thanks,
Jan

ChristinaVOS · #2 (**permalink**) 01-02-2009

It totally depends on just how different they want it.
I'm not a programmer but I know better than the basics of html and css and I always customize the WP templates I use.
Generally changing colors can be fairly easy but it may involve more than just changing the html color codes. Most themes/templates rely on jpg or gif files as background, etc. so it would require pulling those files into Photoshop and making the changes there. If you like, I can take a look at what they have and what they would like and let you know what kind of help they may need.

Tess · #3 (**permalink**) 01-02-2009

Hi Jan, I can really only second what Christina has said - most elements of a template are customizable, but some may take a bit more coding and design knowledge than usual. Things like link classes, font colors (as long as they're not in a graphic, as mentioned) should be fairly straightforward, especially if there is a stylesheet.