I need to revert to old theme…

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    jeanholman · Member ·

    I do not know name of old theme. It was highly customized. Please there must be a way to roll back theme change that I made by accident.

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    timethief · Member ·

    Previously the name of any theme was found in the footer but since Staff changed that Volunteers can no longer determine which theme was being used when accessing cached copies in Google.

    Do you know what the name of the theme you used previously was?

    Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, type in the name of the theme and click the “activate” or the “preview” link.

    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.

    If you do not know what the name of the previous theme was you will have to type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Also subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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    floridahickorygolfer · Member ·

    Another solution – go to the wayback machine (https://archive.org/web/) and search for an old snapshot of your site. If you’re lucky (like I was) the theme will be shown at the bottom of the page and you can search for that theme and (hopefully) reinstall it.

    I got lucky.

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