Can I use our own existing website template with WordPress

  • Hello,

    I would like to integrate WordPress blogging features into the blog portion of our website. Thus, we would like to use our own template for the blog.

    Can any one tell me if that is possible? If so, can you please point me to any documentation on it?

    Thanks in advance

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  • Hi

    A very good way to do this is modify an existing WordPress theme by applying your template to it. Change the header image, background colors and images, typography, etc. in the theme’s template files and stylesheet.

    Here is one article I found on Google with 30 seconds of searching about how to do this. There are others. You could start here.

    https://wpcrowd.com/customization/how-to-modify-a-wordpress-theme-and-to-make-it-unique/

    One thing I must warn you in doing so, is that if you use a structure of a free theme, you must follow that free theme’s Terms of Services. Unless you are planning on heavy modification which means you are not going to leave any aspect of that theme left in it. So in other words I am saying that if you are modifying a free theme to use your own custom template, it will require you to put the designer’s link back or any other link back that author requires.

    So the best way to go about is permission from the author and then move forward to avoid any troubles in the future.

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