Private labeled Themes

  • Resolved bstone81

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    6 years, 9 months ago

    I have a general question. Often when I am looking for a good WordPress theme, I’ll search the Internet to find a WordPress website that I like. When I open the Page Source to see what theme they are using, it will have the company or website’s name as the theme.

    I’m curious how you private label this. Is there a particular theme that allows for private labeling?

    Thanks,

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  • Well, all you do is to change the folder theme name to your company name.

    Also the theme can be custom coded by a developer.

    If it’s customer coded for your company then it will have your company name and also the developer too.

    It doesn’t affect the files, you still have keep/credit the name of the developer who created for your company theme / website.

    If you brought brought the theme, you still have to give credit to the developer on those files.

    Most of the time that means that it’s a custom theme developed specifically for that website. Remember, not every site uses a pre-built theme!

    Thread Starter bstone81

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    I seem to see this a lot. So if it is a custom theme, is there a base theme or foundational theme that they use to develop the custom theme?

    Maybe. Maybe not.

    When I do it, I normally use one of the Twenty* themes as a base, and copy across the templates that I need, while modifying them completely to do what I need that theme to do. There’s no right or wrong way to do it. You can start with whatever base you want, or start a completely new theme from scratch.

    Thread Starter bstone81

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    So those sites that have a custom label are probably developed by someone who knows coding. Is that a correct assumption?

    Yes that is. If you don’t know PHP coding (and probably JavaScript and HTML) then you won’t be able to do a whole lot.

    That also goes with extending existing themes using child themes, but not quite as much. You will need to know at least the basics of coding before you get too far into it.

    Thread Starter bstone81

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    Thanks for your input. I’ve been working on WordPress sites for about 5 years, and know how to change some HTML or CSS for colors, font’s, placement, etc., but not the PHP stuff.

    I guess I’ll stay with the way I am doing it. There are so many good themes and plugins now, that it doesn’t require too much tweaking of code.

    As per my own few knowledge I think you can do some custo like changing the credit of the theme by what you want then for instance your company’s name using the plugin child theme configurator as during the creation process you have the possibility to put your own credit and some other custo text instead of the one which came with the theme.

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