Changing theme after custom design purchase

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  katierem · Member · Feb 26, 2015 at 4:00 pm

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  Back in September, I purchased the custom design tool to spiff up my blog set to the Quintus theme. Now I want to switch themes…will the custom design work on the new theme? I don’t want to re-purchase the tool but my blog needs a new theme and I very much want to use the custom design tool.

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 26, 2015 at 4:05 pm

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  The CSS upgrade is Blog specific not Theme specific – so you can change your them and still use the CSS upgrade

  CAUTION – since most CSS code is theme specific you will probably need to do some rework on the CSS coding

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 2, 2015 at 9:34 pm

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  As auxclass said, much CSS is theme-specific so you’ll likely need to make adjustments and/or redo pieces of your CSS. Because of this, when you switch themes, your custom CSS is automatically reset to a blank slate, but you can retrieve your old CSS by clicking on the “CSS Revisions” link in the Customizer:

  

  I don’t want to re-purchase the tool

  You don’t need to re-purchase Custom Design – once you have it, it’ll work with any theme you activate.

  Here are some other things to keep an eye on when you switch themes:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#switch-themes

  Let us know if you need further help.