Title: Theme template
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Theme template

 *  [skromta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skromta/)
 * (@skromta)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-template/)
 * I’m in the process of creating my own theme for WP (first WP theme ever) and 
   the static pages I’m using to create the CSS code is starting to look the way
   I want (haven’t tried IE 6 yet 🙂 ).
 * Anyway, I thought I copy an existing theme and make my modifications. Is there
   any special theme that is especially useful for this or should I just take the
   default theme?

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 *  [Amie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunburntkamel/)
 * (@sunburntkamel)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-template/#post-620168)
 * i always start my themes from sandbox these days:
    [http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/](http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/)
   it can be a bit confusing, but you can basically ignore everything in functions.
   php (leave the file as it is in your theme)
 * some people swear by building from the “classic” theme that’s in the default 
   wordpress installation.
 *  Thread Starter [skromta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skromta/)
 * (@skromta)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-template/#post-620190)
 * Thanks, this is probably what I need.

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