Help with design

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  themikeandbobblog · Member · Mar 4, 2017 at 9:14 pm

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  New to the blogging experience. Would like assistance in blog design, necessities, and overall setup.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2017 at 9:16 pm

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  The only themes we can use on WordPress.com hosted blogs are licensed and adapted to run on our multi user software the themes are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and in your dashboard at > Appearance > Themes

  Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one is at https://wordpress.com/themes/harmonic/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://harmonic.wordpress.com/

  All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/

  You must be logged in under the exact same username that registered the site to be able to access the site. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

  Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog.

  To use the customizer see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

  For creating a post in the New editor see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page in the new editor see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing in the new editor see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page. If you need help setting up a custom menu see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages

  Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
  See also:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/

  re: switching themes

  Note that switching themes https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#switch-themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site. Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you have done any CSS editing.

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.

  The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.