Changing themes- lose content?
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A very very new beginner.
If I change themes, will I lose my content?Also, Is there a tutorial anywhere?
Thank you.
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Hi. Nope, you won’t lose content and you’ll be able to preview how the theme looks with your content before you decide whether to accept that theme.
The FAQ (look up on this page for a link to it) has tutorials on pretty much every aspect of blogging at wordpress.com. If the topics cloud doesn’t have what you need, just enter a word into the search box. Chances are, it’s there.
Happy blogging and welcome to WordPress.
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Beg to differ.
When I changed themes after specifying over twenty categories, the categories disappeared from the Dashboard altogether, even though they continued to show up on the new theme.
This means I can no longer edit the categories I added earlier, and in order to get them back I must re-add them to the dashboard. Unless I am doing something wrong, or not looking in the right place in the Dashboard, this is a major bug and should be addressed.
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@sharonmahoney
If this is the case, that is something that is not supposed to happen and you need to contact staff.Categories in the dashboard are under manage > categories.
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I know where the categories are supposed to appear. But once you switch themes, the only category that appears under manage > categories is ‘uncategorized” — even when I switch back to the original theme I created them under!
This phenomenon doesn’t happen when I switch themes in my independently hosted WordPress blog. Just this new WordPress.com blog. I’m amazed that there is no reference to it anywhere on any of the forums or FAQs. Am I the only one experiencing this?
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sharon, your blog seems to have only one post. Did you assign that post to *all* the new categories? I suppose not; that would explain where your categories are gone :-)
Categories appear only if they contain at least one entry. In order to associate a post to a category you have to check the category you wish in the “write” window on the right sidebar (usually you do that before you hit “publish”, but you can assign categories also after publishing). -
I know my way around WordPress, as I have been using it on my personal blog for the better part of four years. This particular site is just being built, hence the single post.
The problem is not with the list of Categories appearing in the blog itself, but in the DASHBOARD.
As I said to thesacredpath above, the list of Categories do not appear in the Dashboard under “Manage > Categories”.
However, they DO appear in the Dashboard under “Blogroll > Categories”.
This is a bug, not a lack of understanding on my part.
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No need to get aggressive, we are only trying to help. thesacredpath is right, do contact support.
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Not aggressive, but frustrated. Grrrr. I appreciate your efforts on my behalf.
I will contact support on Monday. At least I found a workaround for the time being.
Have a great weekend.
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In my test blog I have seven categories, only one of which has a post assigned to it. I switch themes all the time on that blog while helping people out here in the forum, and my categories have never disappeared from manage > categories and moved to blogroll > categories. Since I’ve never seen anyone else have this problem, my assumption is that it was a one-time bug of some sort, which is why I suggested contacting support.
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thesacredpath, you are right, I have several blogs on this platform and never experienced this problem, so I suppose that this might a very special unfortunate exception which can only be fixed by staff.
Have a nice weekend, too.
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I have over 200 categories now, and nothing whatsoever happens to them when I switch themes.
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