How to use these non-WP templates with WP

  • I found a lovely website that I’d like to use for getting my background, headers, sidebars and buttons.

    https://paisleycatscrapsfreebloglayouts.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html

    Thing is, I can’t figure out how to do it. This is all new territory for me. Even when I read how to do something on here, I’m overwhelmed. I assume that I’m to choose a template from WP and then change things to include what I want from her site. Is that correct? How do I know what will work? She’s had some people say that her backgrounds don’t always work with WP.

    The owner wrote the tutorials for Blogger users. She isn’t sure how to use them in WP.

    We’d both appreciate any help that can be offered. Excuse my ignorance. I’m reading, but can only take in so much at a time.

    Peace,
    frugalbonnie

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  • Hi frugalbonnie.

    You could use those backgrounds etc, you just need to take some time to learn a bit about how WordPress themes are structured. The main file you’ll need to edit will be the style.css file, this file controls the look of a theme, you’ll find the links to background, header and other images files in your style.css. For example if you want to change your background a typical bit of markup code in your style.css would be:

    body {
	font-size: 62.5%; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
	font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
	background: #d5d6d7 url('images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg');
	color: #333;
	text-align: center;
	}

    You would then upload your background.jpg to the images folder of your theme and then update the link images/kubrickcolor.jpg replacing “kubrickcolor.jpg” with your background image. Depending on the image you might have to add some positioning to the style.

    Anyway… there are great tutorials out there that explain it better than I’m doing, I recommend perusing https://www.wpbeginner.com/ and checking out their tutorials. Theming WordPress is easy once you understand the basics.

    Have fun!

    Thread Starter frugalbonnie

    (@frugalbonnie)

    Thank you so much!!! After a few quirks, was just able to view the blog this morning. Probably will start on it tomorrow.

    May I share your response with the lady who has the themes website?

    Blessings……
    Bonnie

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