changing theme
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I’m using your free plan. I’d like to change my theme, but I don’t want the public site to be affected until I work out all the bugs. Can I set up a second, private site, import the data that I’ve exported from scripturalpursuit.wordpress.com then figure out how to fix the theme? Or is there a better way?
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Hi @gregg000, if you just want to change the theme then customize it prior to publishing, you can do that by using the “Try and Customize” link on the theme of your choice. That will load up the theme in the customizer. You can save a draft (look for the gear at the top of customize), or opt not to keep the changes, or publish when you’re satisfied.
As for importing and exporting and keeping a private staging site, I actually do that myself if I’m making changes beyond what “Try and Customize” offers. But I use a custom domain to keep it easier: when a staging site is ready to go live, I move the domain to it, and the old site becomes the new staging site, if that makes sense.
With a free domain it’s not as easy, unfortunately: you’d basically figure out the changes you want to make, then apply all those changes to the live site. So the “Try and Customize” option really is much easier if it’ll work for you.
Let us know if you need more help!
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Thanks for trying to help. I’ve attempted to “try and customize” – and every attempt made the previewed site unusable. Even tried setting up a new free site at <something>.home.blog – and imported the xml file, but the result was horrible. I should really turn this project over to someone who has time for all the fiddly bits of making the blog work right. The wordpress platform still isn’t ‘user friendly’ enough for me.
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Can you give more details on how exactly the preview becomes unusable? What are you trying to do in the Customizer that you can’t do in Try and Customize mode?
Even tried setting up a new free site at <something>.home.blog – and imported the xml file, but the result was horrible.
Can you give more details on what’s going wrong here as well? Importing the .xml file will only import your content, i.e. posts, pages, comments, to the testing site. It won’t make any changes to the site settings, theme, or customizations. That’s what @supernovia referred to above when she said “you’d basically figure out the changes you want to make, then apply all those changes to the live site.” – customizations cannot be exported, so you’d figure it out on the test site, and then manually copy over everything to the live site.
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In each theme that I tried, the individual blog posts lose their formatting, making the content difficult to read. I believe that you want to help me, and I appreciate your assistance. Unfortunately for both of us, I just don’t have the time or inclination to be a wordpress expert. I’ve already spent more time on this project than I have to spare. I’ll just leave it the way it is.
Thank you.
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Let’s get the theme issue sorted out first.
Please get a screen shot of what you see when this issue happens. Here are some instructions to help you with that: https://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/
Add that screen shot in to your site media library where we can view it. Or you can simply link it here with something like cloudup or snag.gy
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