Title: Custom vs. Customization Defined?????
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# Custom vs. Customization Defined?????

 *  [WPWanderer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpwanderer/)
 * (@wpwanderer)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-vs-customization-defined/)
 * So, hopefully I won’t confuse anybody here, but a questions have been tumbling
   around in my head for the last week.
 * Imagine a client asks for a “Custom WordPress Template”. Possibly a little vague.
   In the end, what he recieves is a child theme of TwentyTen.
 * Would you consider this custom? Might it be considered custom? When I think “
   custom” I think taking a Photoshop designing and coding it into a WordPress Template.
 * However, these days with the power of child themes and the 1000’s of themes that
   can be fully customized maybe definitions have blurred.
 * Sorry if I am confusing everyone here. Possibly I am over contemplating this :).

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-vs-customization-defined/#post-2182058)
 * Well you know it’s custom, but do you think the client will think a child theme
   is custom.
 * Creating a child theme could easily be view as customizing (a verb) a custom (
   an adjective) theme.
 * But if the client doesn’t think so then copy the TwentyTen theme folder to a 
   new folder and customize that.
 *  Thread Starter [WPWanderer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpwanderer/)
 * (@wpwanderer)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-vs-customization-defined/#post-2182067)
 * In that regard you would consider all WordPress Themes frameworks. And a “Custom
   WordPress Website” would be a customization of those frameworks (possibly redesigned
   graphics etc.).
 *  Thread Starter [WPWanderer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpwanderer/)
 * (@wpwanderer)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-vs-customization-defined/#post-2182070)
 * …could be defined as a customization of those frameworks. I guess semantics.

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