Changing my theme

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  precious2004 · Member · Dec 3, 2014 at 7:37 pm

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  I changed my theme yesterday and saved the changes but when I view my site the old theme still appears. When I log into wordpress however it’s showing me that I have in fact selected the new theme. What to do?

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 3, 2014 at 7:41 pm

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  What is the old theme? What is the new theme?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 3, 2014 at 10:13 pm

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  Which website are you referring to? This site doesn’t appear to be hosted here on WordPress.com – http://tarotforhealing.com/ – so perhaps that’s where some of the confusion is coming from.

  If you recently moved to a self-hosted WordPress site on your own host, you’ll need to log into your admin area on your new site to be able to manage your site: http://tarotforhealing.com/wp-login.php

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  johnmkehoe · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 4:51 pm

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  I have a theme selected for my website on my wordpress account? Simple question, where do I go within wordpress to replace the theme with another one?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 4:53 pm

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  @johnmkehoe
  The only themes we can use on WordPress.com blogs like your blog are licensed and adapted to run on our multiuser software the themes are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/

  Themes are just “skins”. 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 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 “activate” or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.

  After you change your theme all you need to do is go here Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Inactive Widgets and re-install them where you want them to appear. The widget contents and settings will be the same as they were prior to changing themes.