Help, tried a new theme, how do I revert?

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  swamptalkgame · Member · Sep 30, 2011 at 6:57 pm

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  Help help! I was trying new themes and accidentally pressed “apply” — now when I go back to the original theme, all my widgets are gone. How can I revert to a previous version of the theme/blog?!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 30, 2011 at 7:02 pm

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  Each time we change themes what we see is a default display of suggested widgets – they are NOT actual widgets. When we switch themes all our existing widgets are not lost. They automatically migrate into the Inactive Widgets box > Appearance > Widgets And, after we change themes we simply go here > Appearance > Widgets > Inactive Widgets and install them again in the sidebar/footer areas for widgets. To install any theme simply type the name in the box here > Appearance > Themes and click the “activate” link on the thumbnail image when it appears.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 30, 2011 at 7:04 pm

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  Also be aware that not all themes display widgets on each and every page in the blog. See here and type in the name of your theme to find out whether or not your theme does display widgets on single post pages > http://theme.wordpress.com/

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  swamptalkgame · Member · Sep 30, 2011 at 7:08 pm

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  Thank you, thank you!!!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 30, 2011 at 7:10 pm

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  You’re welcome. If you are using Twenty Eleven then this is a helpful article.