How to restore theme to default?

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  wendyperrotti · Member · Oct 17, 2013 at 1:59 pm

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  I’m brand new to wordpress and started to “mess around” with my theme to see how it all works. I assumed that I’d be able to just go back to the original but can’t seem to. Is there a way to go back to the default theme?

  Also, is there a way to “play” with it, with out saving the changes?

  Thanks for your help.

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  melchoyce · Member · Oct 17, 2013 at 7:34 pm

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  Hi there,

  There is unfortunately no quick way to reset all of your settings, but you can reset them individually:

  • To reset your header image, navigate to Appearance -> Header and click the “Restore Original Header Image” button that appears about halfway down the page, then save.
  • To reset your background color, navigate to Appearance -> Background and click the “select color” button in the Display Options portion of the page. This will bring up a color picker, along with a new button that says “default.” Click that button to restore your background color to what the theme came with, then save.
  • To return to your blog’s original color scheme, navigate to Appearance -> Customize, open the “colors” panel, and click the “default” button next to Change Colors. Then, save.

  If you want to just play around with the appearance of your blog without saving the changes, you can set most of your appearance settings within the Customizer. It will preview the changes for you live. You can learn more about the Customizer here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

  Please let me know if you have any questions.