My theme changed on me
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Hello, I bought a theme for a new domain and it somehow changed the theme of my (most important) business website, loftphotographer.com.
how do I get it back to its original theme?
thank you in advance!
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I checked your domain loftphotographer.com, and it’s currently using the Dawson theme, which is a free theme included with your current plan. Could you let me know which theme you purchased, or are you referring to your recent upgrade to one of our paid plans?
Do you also recall which theme you were using before the issue began?
Since you now have a paid plan, you’re entitled to priority 24/7 support from our Happiness Engineers. I recommend reaching out through the private support channel instead of the forum so we can provide more detailed and tailored assistance.
I look forward to your update.
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Hi,
I can elaborate.
I purchased the domain with website (and personal plan) for iphotographboats.com, and selected the Dawson theme.
Through some glitch in the system, it changed my website loftphotographer.com to the Dawson theme. I have no idea what theme I was currently using, because I created this website in 2017. It was pretty perfect so I try not to change it much.
So to finish my story, when I try to edit iphotographboats.com, it wants me to purchase another plan and acts as if I haven’t purchased a plan yet. See? Some kind of glitch. This problem I can deal with later.
Right now my biggest problem is that I need to get loftphotographer.com back to the original theme it was using for the past 8 years.
Thank you in advance for your help!
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Thank you for providing the detailed information.
To begin with, I reviewed the history of loftphotographer.com and saw that the Sela theme was used when you first started your site. You can follow these steps to change your theme here: https://wordpress.com/support/themes/changing-themes/#switch-a-theme
Regarding your other concern, we can assist with moving the Personal plan to the free site associated with your new domain iphotographboats.com. This process is best handled through our private support channel. I see you already have an open ticket (#10094820). Please await for the email update, and if you have any questions about transferring your Personal plan, kindly reply directly to that email.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
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Thank you!
When I search for the theme it isn’t there. Any suggestions? (I have “all” selected).
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I’ve attached a screenshot. I also went to wordpress.com/theme/sela and it doesn’t work from there either.
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Hi @loftphotographer,
Thank you for the screenshot!After further checking, I found that the Sela theme has been retired, which is why it no longer appears in the theme selection on your site. Sadly, it is no longer possible to revert to the Sela theme.
If you’d like to switch to a similar or updated theme, here are some suggestions:
Closest in style to Sela
- Edin – Designed by the same team as Sela, with a similar full-width header and clean layout.
- Ixion – Professional, minimal design with large header images.
- Shoreditch – Clean, grid-style layout suitable for small businesses or portfolios.
Modern, flexible upgrades
- Twenty Twenty-Four – A block-based, highly customizable theme.
- Hever – Spacious design with large typography and full-width images.
- Radcliffe 2 – Bold, image-focused layout for visual storytelling.
Please update me on how it goes and let me know if you have any other questions.
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Hi,
through my research I found out that Stow replaced Seal– its very similar!
Thank you for your effort on this. Can you help me sort out iphotographboats.com? I paid for the plan and I can’t get passed the page where it wants me to pay for another plan again.
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That’s great news! Excellent job getting your site, loftphotographer.com, back on track — it looks great!
Regarding your other concern, I’ll be reaching out to you via email shortly. Once you receive it, please reply so we can proceed with moving the Personal plan to iphotographboats.com.
Thank you!
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