Downloading theme
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I am trying to work on a local version of the site so I can do custom work. To get the theme where is the GET THEME link? I looked for the action bar do not see any.
How do I back up users with perms? I am used to normal WP.
Thanks
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Hi,
I am trying to work on a local version of the site so I can do custom work.
What do you mean by a local version of the site? Are you referring to the site https://harborlab.org/?
To get the theme where is the GET THEME link?
There’s no “Get Theme” link on a WordPress.com site. Or at least I’ve yet to see one in eight years of WP.com use. See the Themes support page for information and instructions regarding how to browse, search (for), preview, activate, and switch themes.
I looked for the action bar do not see any.
The Action Bar on a WordPress.com site appear by default on the bottom right hand corner of the front page, and of every static page, post, and archives page.
How do I back up users with perms?
Sorry, I don’t know what that means.
You may add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention.
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Yes the site is harborlab.org, I want to work locally on the site to make changes before we make it live.
I want to download a copy of the theme ‘Forever’.
I read this:
https://move.wordpress.com/themes-and-widgets/
I do not see an action bar on the site. I am logged in.
How do I backup the user and their access permissions to the local site? Ie I want to keep intact the editors, admins etc
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Hi,
I want to download a copy of the theme ‘Forever’.
I read this:
https://move.wordpress.com/themes-and-widgets/The information and instructions on that page are regarding a move from a WordPress.com site to a WordPress.org site. The available themes for a WordPress.com site are not uploaded to a site, they are simply activated. See the Uploading Custom Themes support page.
I do not see an action bar on the site. I am logged in.
I find the action bar on every page and post of the site https://harborlab.org/.
How do I backup the user and their access permissions to the local site? Ie I want to keep intact the editors, admins etc
I still don’t follow you. Your description of what you mean by a “local site”
I want to work locally on the site to make changes before we make it live.
suggests that you’re referring to choosing the privacy setting “Private.”
The Changing a Site with Followers from Public To Private section of the Privacy Settings support page addresses the issue of allowing followers access to a site after a changing the privacy setting from public to private. However, this issue shouldn’t affect users. I don’t think user access and roles will be affected at all. If you find otherwise, or if you’d like to confirm that what I’ve said is accurate, then please add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention.
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You are saying I cannot get a copy of the theme to use on a local machine
Is the Action Bar the one that says Customize?
A local site is one on my own machine in my office, running a stack like WAMP.
I am not talking about privacy. Can I backup the Database?
What about the users. I mean the people that EDIT content as opposed to Administrator that run the site -
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Note that what I posted is a link to the retired Forever theme version that was licensed and adapted to run on wordpress.com sites only. The wordpress.ORG version of the theme that was adapted is called Colorway.
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You are saying I cannot get a copy of the theme to use on a local machine
Is the Action Bar the one that says Customize?
A local site is one on my own machine in my office, running a stack like WAMP.
I am not talking about privacy. Can I backup the Database?
What about the users. I mean the people that EDIT content as opposed to Administrator that run the siteWe do not possess a copy of the Colorway theme https://wordpress.org/themes/search/Colorway/ here at wordpress.COM and we do not provide any support at all for local installs of WordPress.ORG software. That support is found at http://wordpress.ORG/support.
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We provide support only for wordpress.COM hosted sites. Our support docs do not apply to
(1) local installs of wordpress.ORG software on your own server or
(2) wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, and we do not provide support for them at wordpress.COM.Also, note that we do not provide Jetpack support https://jetpack.com/support/ for sites linked to wordpress.COM accounts with the Jetpack plugin so they display on the My Sites wordpress.com account page.
Some Jetpack solutions are here http://jetpack.com/support/
Others are in the Jetpack support forum at WordPress.org
http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpackHowever, if help cannot be found at either one then they can file a Jetpack support ticket here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/?jetpack=needs-service
As you are referring to a site that is not hosted here, if you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
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Is the Action Bar the one that says Customize?
No. In my first post above, I provided a link to the WordPress.com page Introducing: Our New Action Bar. The page includes a description and illustrations of the action bar. Oddly, there doesn’t seem to be a support page on the action bar yet.
A local site is one on my own machine in my office, running a stack like WAMP. I am not talking about privacy.
Thanks. Now I got it.
Can I backup the Database?
You may export the contents of a site. See the Export support page for information and instructions. If that’s not what you require, then please call for staff attention by adding a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of the topic.
What about the users. I mean the people that EDIT content as opposed to Administrator that run the site
I know what WordPress.com site users are, and that’s what I was referring to. I don’t know the answer to the following question, and would again suggest that you call for staff attention.
How do I backup the user and their access permissions to the local site? Ie I want to keep intact the editors, admins etc
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You’re welcome.
The instructionTo search for your WordPress.com theme, use the action bar in the bottom right when visiting your site and click the Get Theme link.
in the Themes and Widgets page you linked to above, evidently refers to the action bar on a WordPress.org site, which is different than a WordPress.com site’s action bar. The instruction is a bit confusing because it’s regarding searching for the WordPress.org version of a WordPress.com theme using the “Get Theme” link.
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Almost as bad as the API docs for USPS which list the wrong server.
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Hi there!
Can I backup the Database?
You can’t because we don’t provide access to your site’s source files here at WordPress.com. You may export/import the site’s content, as in any WordPress installation. Here are the support pages:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/That won’t include any settings, but it will include: posts, pages, portfolios (if it’s active), testimonials (if it’s active), comments, categories, tags, and users.
My goal is to have a dev site to work on.
Keeping a local installation for development purposes doesn’t apply to WordPress.com sites. It only makes sense to have one if you are able to mirror your local install to the site in production. That won’t work well here because as I said above you won’t have access to your source files and you won’t be able to upload your settings. I advise you to set your site’s visibility to private while you work on it and once it’s ready to go public, just change that again. You can do that via this page:
https://wordpress.com/settings/general/
Cheers!
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In conclusion I really cannot do much except pull off my content.
That’s true. If you value your content, I’d say this is quite a lot! :)
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@harborscott just as one more suggestion, since the environment here at WordPress.com is quit different from any WAMP stack you might run, have you thought about creating a second site here on our servers, and exporting/importing content to that?
Bear in mind, the only code you can change here on our servers is the CSS, but you can change themes / adjust widgets / change CSS / etc … and then point your domain to that new site. It isn’t a dev environment, but if you plan to keep using our environment it’s a great option.
If you prefer to run your own copy of WordPress.org at another host, so that you can do your own custom development, you can do that too. Here’s the theme for WordPress.org (though we have retired it here in lieu of Toujours, since Forever was not responsive), and if you’ll import the export file into your local copy, it will import your images and what not too. I hope that helps.
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