How do I revert back to my original theme?
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During the webinar on July 6, I changed my website theme. She said that I can restore my previous theme by going to Site>Pages>Draft and selecting the homepage. However, when I selected it, it was the theme that I changed to, not the original theme that I am trying to revert to. I was able to find the original theme at the bottom of ‘published’ section, but I don’t know how to restore it.
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Hi there,
It sounds like there’s a bit of misunderstanding here.
The theme is the overall design of your site, and is changed at My Site ->Design ->Themes. Your site currently has the Exford theme. Your original theme was Maywood. So go to the theme showcase, and select Maywood there to switch back to that one.
When you activate some of our themes, it also creates a new homepage for your site, containing demo content for the theme. If you already had a homepage at that point, your existing homepage gets set to draft. That’s what you’re seeing in the Pages section.
To reactivate your original homepage, first find it under draft pages, edit it, and republish it. Before proceeding I’d also suggest you delete all the other pages titled “Home” that you aren’t going to use, just to prevent confusion on the next step.
Next go to My Site ->Design ->Customize ->Homepage settings. Then set the correct homepage you just republished as your site’s front page, and save.
Let me know if you have questions about this.
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Hello!
Actually, I wanted to go back to the theme I used before Maywood; that is, the default homepage. I followed your advice to publish the homepage I desire to use and set it in the Homepage settings, and now it works well! Thank you:)
Just one question: If I retain my theme as Exford, how does it affect my page design? It seems to make no difference from the original design.
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Think of a theme like a change of clothes, how the content is laid out (your posts and pages) won’t change, but how they look (colors and fonts) might.
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