Duster theme no longer available?
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Hi there.
I have been blogging at femmeonamission.com for some time using the Duster theme. I am now starting a website for my portrait business at juliarobinsonportraits.wordpress.com, and I would like to use the Duster theme again. But I can’t find it! When I searched themes, it wasn’t there. So I went to the Duster theme showcase and tried to activate straight from there and had no luck either.
Is Duster unavailable for new blogs? I hope not, it’s my favorite!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It’s been replaced by Twenty-Eleven, which is very similar but has a couple of extra features.
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@femmeonamission
The Duster theme is still available on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. I just activated it on my test blog. In fact I see it on the WordPress.com blog linked to your username right now. When a theme is already in use on any blog it does not appear here for selection > Appearance > Themes -
Also note this helpful post on the theme and how it operates contrasted with Twenty Eleven and how it operates > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/workings-of-duster/
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They may have disabled it for new blogs? That’s usually what happens before they disable it for everyone. I know they’ve marked Duster as deprecated in the svn.
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@TT: I just registered a new blog to check, and OP is right, Duster is not available in newly created blogs.
@femmeonamission: As wank said, you can use Twenty Eleven instead: it’s exactly the same theme actually, just with a few improvements.
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@Panos
Okay but the OP states this is the blog in question > http://femmeonamission.com/ and I do not think I am hallucinating. It is already wearing the Duster theme is it not? -
You’re not hallucinating, but OP is talking about this blog:
http://juliarobinsonportraits.wordpress.com/
That’s what happens when users don’t post the whole URL… -
@panos
YIKES! You’re right. Visually challenged sigh I did not detect the link. And now I know why this post was made here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/duster-theme-no-longer-available-1?replies=11#post-626225 Thanks so much for helping with this. -
Ok, I’m not happy that Twenty Eleven still requires that I have set of small pics as a gallery in order for me to use the gallery post format for a full article.
Duster gives me a single thumbnail pic conversion automatically when I choose the blog post in gallery format AND preserves still inside the full post all my normal sized pics carefully embedded in my article.
http://cyclewriteblog.wordpress.comThen I tried again on another private blog use Twenty Ten theme and previewed it in Twenty Eleven. same problem.
I don’t get it. ….maybe I’m missing something here.
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To get a thumbnail, neither Duster nor Twenty Eleven “requires that you have set of small pics as a gallery”. Both Duster and Twenty Eleven require that there is at least one image attached to the post (= uploaded via the Add an Image tool of the post editor).
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Thanks for your answer panos. I hope it works for others.
It doesn’t work for me. Because of this problem I don’t watch to even preview Twenty Eleven, because I don’t think it won’t work again for me when switching from Duster. I tried this the first time before Duster was removed as the theme to select.
I wish I knew…I would like WordPress Support staff to test this..
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