lisamv

Lol, thanks Andrew, I have a feeling your right about that!

That’s perfectly fine, I don’t care who’s name is on the template and I have no intention or desire to claim anyone’s work. I want to do this with blogger too as I said and people are doing it the same way. Using the code from one of the simple templates then customizing it with graphics, etc. If a customer asked me for a custom wordpress or blogger template I would not tell them, well, you can’t use any of themes available because I will have to code it from scratch, that wouldn’t make much sense.

This has become so confusing. I think my question is fairly simple and straightforward and don’t know why I can’t get the answers.

@wpyogi

Yes, I want to create a site NOT make themes to sell.

@wpyogi

If you go to Etsy.com and search wordpress theme/template you will see exactly what I’m talking about. That is what I want to do.

So ANY theme whether you purchase it or it’s free is for personal use ONLY??? So, people are buying themes and using free themes and NONE of them are using those themes to create websites for their customers? That makes no sense.

What??? Nevermind, you aren’t understanding what I’m saying. I don’t plan on stealing and never would and I don’t know how else to explain what I want to do. So, go do a search on Etsy.com for WordPress themes and look at the listings. Are ALL these people doing something illegal by selling these? I can see when I look at certain ones that the code is from a simple child theme layout and they are just customizing it with their own graphics or whatever and making a CUSTOM design. Obviously, they started with a simple bit of code and built upon it. Is this really illegal? I’ve read other forums that say it is not.

going now to look for the nearest, highest bridge….

Thanks for the reply. I’m not interested in building wordpress themes from complete scratch. I don’t want to be a developer I am just a graphic designer with a need to place my graphics into a blog or website. I didn’t mean stealing someone elses custom template code and reselling it. What I meant was downloading one of the free templates and starting out with some amount of code even if it’s very basic rather than starting from scratch. Then I would customize the CSS to my liking and sell the custom design. I believe I am allowed to do that as everyone is doing it that way, it’s nothing unusual but very common.

I am also wanting to do the same for blogger templates but again, have no clue where to start, same questions apply.

This should be the easiest part of the whole thing and shouldn’t even require explanation but for some odd reason I can’t figure it out, been trying for weeks to find some instruction on the steps to take. So frustrated I just want to kill myself at this point :/