Cannot find my original theme
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For many years I have used Ocean Mist as my theme. Recently I “activated” a different theme (onto my blog ancestree.wordpress.com) but it was not at all appropriate. So I tried to find good old Ocean Mist to revert to it. Over and over I was told it cannot be found. This is a terrible mess… what I did doesn’t fit other themes – seemingly. Hence… “Help!”
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi Jeff,
Is ancestree.wordpress.com the blog that was wearing Ocean Mist previously? Or is that a new blog?Themes are retired when they no longer support all WordPress.COM features. Retired themes remain available to older blogs but not to newly created ones.
Existing blogs running retired themes are generally unaffected and can continue to use the retired theme, but some inconsistencies in feature support may arise.
If http://ancestree.wordpress.com/ is not a new blog type modlook into the sidebar of this thread for Staff help please. Then subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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That blog (ancestree.wordpress.com) has existed for many years. It’s not new. The only “new” thing is that fact that I tried to see what other themes would look/act like… then I tried to go back. Every (free) theme I looked at was missing a Search Box (or whatever that’s called) and that Searchability was very important to my site – which was half blog & half static pages designed to be found by Searching. Thanks.
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As most themes do not have search boxes built in most of us use the search widgets provided here > Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/search-widget/ -
I cannot follow the suggestion about typing “modlook”. It won’t take it in the tags box and I see nowhere else to enter it. Hmmm… “sidebar of this thread”… I guess I don’t get it.
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And, now that Ocean Mist is gone, I can no longer see how to edit my scads of static pages from the dashboard. Suggestions? (and unlike readers who can, I suppose, do a Ctrl-F search to find something, this only works for blog posts in the dashboard, not for pages.) Or how to create a new static page? Yikes!
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And, now that Ocean Mist is gone, I can no longer see how to edit my scads of static pages from the dashboard. Suggestions?
a) Go to your page, example:
https://ancestree.wordpress.com/Name-of-the-Page
and clic Edit link.b) Go to your Dashboard-> Pages-> All the pages
https://ancestree.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=pagehover over the page title and click the Edit link.
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@jpmyers, click here and you can again activate Ocean Mist if you wish. Since you had previously used it, you can use it again, even though it has been retired.
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Well… thanks for the offer. I’m quite a few hours into trying to salvage things using a new theme (Resonar). I’ll think about it – but I don’t really want to re-change so many things. Maybe.
Can you link me to an explanation of what aspects of Ocean Mist were not modern enough? Was it pathetic at scaling down to cellphone size? Or ….. ?
What is the functioning of placing an @ in front of “jpmyers”? Where does one “look up” all the goodies out here… like “Allowed markup: a blockquote code em strong ul ol li. You can also put code in between backtick (`) characters.” -
There really isn’t a list. At some point in time, trying to get older themes to work with the newer standards was going to take too much work, and one of the issues we have is that we do not want to make a bunch of changes that will cause users issues, and in many instances that is what would happen.
Ocean Mist is not a responsive design, but that wasn’t the reason that it was retired. We do have the Mobile theme that can be used at Appearance > Mobile for fixed width themes such as Ocean Mist.
The @ in front of a username is sort of just a habit with all of us since that is how we all do it in our communication channels for Staff. It pings us and lets us know that someone wants our attention.
The Allowed markup just lets people know what they can use in the forums. Strong is for bold, blockquote in case you wish to quote some text, code is if you want to add some code and have it formatted as code, em is for iltalics. It is sort of a hold out from when we did not have the formatting buttons above the reply box.
backticks (on the key to the left of the 1 key on US keyboards can be used in place of code tags.
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