Changing themes

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  promisinglyominous · Member · Dec 22, 2012 at 3:11 am

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  How do I change themes if I don’t like the one I’ve initially chosen?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 22, 2012 at 11:07 pm

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  Changing themes is easy to do and no data is ever lost. However, a new theme may have different sidebars and footers for widgets and or different features. You can go here Dashboard > Appearance > Themes and select a new theme and activate it. 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.

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  americanaeneuropa · Member · Jan 4, 2013 at 9:48 pm

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  Do your previous posts convert automatically to the same theme? And does it sometimes cause problems with formatting within posts, especially when there are a lot of photos?
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  timethief · Member · Jan 4, 2013 at 9:53 pm

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  And does it sometimes cause problems with formatting within posts, especially when there are a lot of photos?

  if you choose a theme that has a maximum displayed image width that’s grossly different from the maximum displayed image width in the original theme you may have to do some resizing. http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/

  I believe every blogger needs to register a “mirror” test blog and make it private for testing themes, widgets, headers, etc. ie. for exactly this purpose. Scroll down to Creating a mirror blog http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/19/how-to-select-a-wordpress-com-theme-part-1/