Can I change the theme of my 5 year running blog without any loss?

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  sewingcircle · Member · Mar 4, 2016 at 4:43 pm

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  Hi Forum,

  my question is: can I just change the theme setting of my blog that I am writing for the past 5 years without any loss, twists in the picture setting (i.e. galleries and slideshows)?
  Or is this not possible for such an old blog?
  I was writing so far in the Vigilance Theme and want to change to a different one, such as Gazette.
  Hope to receive advice from you !!
  Thanks in advance
  The Sewing Circle Tokyo

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2016 at 4:47 pm

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  re: switching themes

  Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The image dimensions of featured images may vary but the only time you may have to do some work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme and have done any CSS editing.

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.

  The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.

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  sewingcircle · Member · Mar 4, 2016 at 5:01 pm

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  Hi,

  thanks for your super quick reply! Sounds great!
  I’ll try to preview and play around with some themes now.

  *The Sewing Circle Tokyo

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2016 at 6:02 pm

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  Best wishes and if you have any trouble just post here again.