The Cost of Installing Custom Themes

This is because WordPress.com is unique in this regard. If you purchase hosting and install WordPress on that host, you can then put a theme or plugins in the relevant folders, hundreds of themes, or even put a completely different application in WordPress’ place if you chose to. This is what’s called a self hosted … Read more

Is there a way to get plugins and themes not built for multisite to work on a network subsite?

Most plugins and themes don’t need to do anything special to be multisite compatible. Themes especially. So just because a theme or plugin doesn’t say it’s Multisite compatible doesn’t mean it isn’t. Sometimes plugins don’t behave well if you Network Activate them, but the workaround for that is often just to activate them on individual … Read more

Why am I getting a different filename? And how does WordPress load singular.php for both Page & Post? (Fresh WordPress installation)

This is because you did not put singular.php in the URL, and if you did it wouldn’t make any sense. Remember, WordPress loads the template, not the other way round, your mental model of how this works is upside down. What’s going on? Why is singular.php the file being accessed while PHP prints that the … Read more

How to create a new copy of a theme currently being used?

I assume you do have full access to admin? Several options I came up with without much thinking: Make an archive with modified copy of theme, install it through file upload. Obviously this is easier if you have copy of theme, otherwise you might have to build it file by file from sources accessible in … Read more