Baskerville 2 showing double pictures

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    wonderingsoul25 · Member ·

    HI there, I’ve just switched from Baskerville to Baskerville 2 and it’s showing double pictures on all my posts. Does anyone know how to undo this so that I only have one photo?

    I can’t seem to find the original Baskerville theme to switch back to – presumably it’s been discontinued…?

    Thank you

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    Hi,

    I can’t seem to find the original Baskerville theme to switch back to…
    Baskerville is retired, as you’d guessed, but you should be able to switch back to any free theme created before your site was created, including any themes that you’ve already used on the site. At least according to the lates policy that I’m aware of.

    However, in tests I found that I was unable to find Baskerville among available themes at My Site(s) > Design > Themes, and could only find it via the WP-Admin dashboard at Admin toolar > Appearance > Themes.

    I’ve just switched from Baskerville to Baskerville 2 and it’s showing double pictures on all my posts. Does anyone know how to undo this so that I only have one photo?

    The site https://wonderingsoul25.wordpress.com/ presently has the Book Lite theme (also retired) applied. Are you referring to that site or another?

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Hey folks, the issue is actually fairly easy to fix. Baskerville 2 has more settings under Customize > Content Options, and it’s upgraded in a lot of other ways, so I don’t recommend switching back.

    Uncheck the featured image option for individual posts and pages, and that should do the trick.

    Hoping this helps!

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    @supernovia,

    Has there been a change in policy regarding switching to free themes? The most recent policy that I’ve been made aware of is that expressed by @kathrnwp in a Help forum thread in September 2017, where she said:

    Free themes – you can activate any retired free theme on a site created before the theme was retired, via WP Admin, regardless of whether a given site ever had that theme active. Retired free themes are not accessible at wordpress.com/themes, because we don’t want to encourage anyone to activate a retired theme.

    She also indicated in the same September 2017 comment that only access to a retired premium theme, not a free theme, is lost when you switch from it to another theme. I haven’t heard of this policy being changed, but the results of my tests today suggest that now it might only be possible to switch back to a retired free theme in WP-Admin.

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    In the last paragraph above, I meant “only access to a retired premium theme, not a retired free theme, is lost when you switch from it to another theme.”

  • fstat · Staff ·

    Hi @musicdoc1,

    There’s hasn’t been any change for free themes. If you have used a free retired theme in the past, you can switch back to it only through the WP Admin dashboard.

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    @fstat,

    Thanks. I’d missed the “via WP-Admin” in the quote from @kathrynwp. Since I always use WP-Admin for theme changes, I hadn’t noticed that retired themes weren’t available via My Site(s) > Design > Themes as well, or I’d forgotten.

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