My failed attempt to create a theme

  • Resolved themerdreamer

    (@themerdreamer)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    Hi I’m new on this forum – and quite new to WordPress –
    I have, on a local machine, played around with the default theme and made it do , css and html-wise, more or less what I wanted it to do.

    However,
    I (probably incredibly naively) thought that it would be possible to:

    1. Copy an untouched ‘default’ theme folder
    2. Rename it to the name of my choice
    3. Upload it to themes folder
    4. Have it available via the wordpress dashboard

    But what happened is that ‘default’ just appears twice in appearances/themes in dashboard.

    so I had a look at themes.php – I’m not a php-er – but I gathered that there is some code in this file to stop people renaming default them passing it of as their own work – which I quite understand.

    But what I want to do is radically overhaul ‘default’ replacing css and html with my own.

    My question is – is it at all legitimate to overhaul an existing theme?
    If so what are the steps I have to take to brand it as my own?

    (Note: as a test i downloaded a theme from the wordpress themes online directory and it was recognised immediately)

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  • Thread Starter themerdreamer

    (@themerdreamer)

    This is me replying to my own post – I sorted it out – for anyone wanting to do the same thing as described above – you have to change the title/author name in style.css and rtl.css

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