lost content
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I spent all of yesterday creating my blog and I had most everything exactly how I wanted it. This morning I started to create my website (a completely separate site) and when I chose the theme for the website, I accidentally had my completed blog selected. I accidentally switched the “Truly Minimal” theme for the blog to “Eden” which erased all my content and widgets that I created yesterday.
Is there any way that I can retrieve this information or do I have to start from the beginning?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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 some work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme and 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.
After you change your theme all you need to do is go here Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Inactive Widgets and re-install them where you want them to appear. The widget contents and settings will be the same as they were prior to changing themes.
Note that every theme will have a detailed theme description page with set up instructions and a live demo site page that you can consult. Here’s an example:
https://wordpress.com/themes/truly-minimal
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Thank you @timethief, that was very helpful. I was able to retrieve some of my lost data, it wasn’t all a loss!
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