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  debgeff · Member · Mar 11, 2013 at 5:43 am

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  How can I center the content on my page? When I view it to edit, it’s centered. When I preview the page the content is pushed to the right side and on the left is “edit this entry” and a column of empty space below it.

  I am copying and pasting .txt from an older blog, http://www.deborahgeffner.com, to form a new blog. The page is centered on the old blog.

  Second question: The default theme seems to be Wu Wei. The older blog’s theme is Oxygen. How do I change the theme if I want to?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 11, 2013 at 6:02 am

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  If you are copy-pasting, you NEED to do this to protect your blog: go to Settings->Writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML” and Save that setting. For a lot of reasons, this is important.

  Now, as to how to change the way the content displays, you can either buy the Custom Design upgrade or you can choose a different theme, or you can wrap your content in div tags to force it to center.

  You can change themes on the Dashboard Appearance->Themes page, and Oxygen is one of the themes there.

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  debgeff · Member · Mar 11, 2013 at 6:49 am

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  I went to to Settings->Writing and selected “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML” and Saved it. The page preview looks the same. Should I delete the page and start over?

  Second question: I see Oxygen in the themes, but I don’t see how to make that my blog theme.

  Thanks.