newby, help choosing themes please
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Hi,
Completely new to this!
I’m looking for a theme, but there are so many out there with options to edit certain things, but not another, how on earth do you filter through to find the right theme?
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Theme selection is subjective and many new bloggers waste a horrific amount of time on worrying over which theme to use rather than creating and publishing content. It is the quality of the content you publish regardless of the theme that houses it that creates a traffic flow to your blog.
To browse themes that you can use go to this page https://theme.wordpress.com/
Click the Find a theme button. Then a page will open with feature filters you can use to narrow your theme selection search.Example: 21 Lifestream + Minimal WordPress Themes
https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/minimal+lifestream/?sort=freeThemes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes https://en.support.wordpress.com/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://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sight/
https://sightdemo.wordpress.com/ -
Here are some basics I will share with you.
To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com hosted blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
It can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/ and we cannot help with search engine issues. http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
re: front page error message found on every new .wordpress.com blog
Nothing Found
It seems we cannot find what you are looking for. Perhaps try a search?There is nothing wrong with your site. By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the front page error message and searchbox that appears on every new WordPress.COM blog will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
For creating a page see here
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page
To create a custom menu see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
To add your Pages into your custom menu see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pagesFor editing see:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/Please use the step by step tutorial that Staff have linked to the bottom of your Admin page at http://learn.wordpress.com
See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also linked to on the bottom of your Admin page.
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