Problems Changing my Theme

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  lasultimasideasdeltarro · Member · Feb 19, 2017 at 4:48 pm

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  Hi, my name is Anibal Birman. I recently started a blog and wanted to change its theme, and with most of the free themes available, this seems to work. However, there are certain themes, like the Vertigo theme, which it just wont allow me to change to. I do not understand why. I try to activate the theme and nothing happens, my page stays as it had been beforehand. What could possibly be happening?
  I look forward to your response,
  Anibal Birman.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 20, 2017 at 12:18 am

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  There are retired themes that no longer support all wordpress.COM features. They can only be used on sites that have previously used them. They cannot be selected for new sites registered after the themes were retired that have never used them before.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 20, 2017 at 12:20 am

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  re: switching themes

  Note that switching themes https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#switch-themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site. 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 a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you 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.

  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.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Feb 20, 2017 at 5:41 pm

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  Hi Anibal – Vertigo is a retired theme, as timethief alluded to — it can only be used on sites created before its retirement date.

  Were there any other themes you tried to activate but couldn’t? If you need any help finding a new theme, just let me know what you’re looking for and I’d be glad to suggest a couple.