Removing/saving blog
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Hello – I am in the process of completely redesigning my blog. Can you please tell me the best way to: 1)Immediately take all content offline and 2) Save all current posts and pictures?
Thank you
ErikThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can make the blog private. To change blog visibility to private so you can use the unwanted blog later go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
WordPress.COM themes are skins and our ability to redesign blogs is limited at WordPress.COM. http://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
You can quickly and easily change themes 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 and browse themes until you find one you like and click “activate” or type in the name of the theme you want to use and
click the “activate” link 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.
The custom design upgrade applies only to a single blog and that upgrade can no longer be purchased individually. To have a custom design upgrade on a blog that does not already have that upgrade now requires purchasing either a Premium bundle http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/ or a Business bundle. http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/
WordPress.com sells bundled Premium http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/ and Business upgrades http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/ which include custom design upgrades in the bundles.
We can only “preview” changes that do not actually display on the blog unless we purchase an upgrade bundle.
If you have not purchased the upgrade bundle which includes a custom design upgrade note that no changes you try out aside from those such as Custom Background, Custom Header, etc. which are stated on the theme description pages in the features column (right hand side) will be visible to visitors.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/You do not need to load the design tools unless you have the Custom Design upgrade. All of these functions can be accessed from your dashboard – without loading the custom design tools – no upgrade required.
Appearance > Header
Appearance > Background
Appearance > Theme Options (applicable only to some themes)
Settings > Reading (set a static front page)
Site Title and Tagline > Settings > GeneralIf you are using the preview mode for the Custom Design upgrade some of the settings in that mode will save but they won’t show up on the front end unless you purchase the upgrade.
To go back to the free options, go to Appearance → Themes → Customize → Colors and click the “exit the preview” link in yellow at the top of the panel on the right.
See also: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/video-tutorial-customizing-your-theme/
If you have purchased either bundle of upgrades then please use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can copy and paste your text into a thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get the help you need.
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Thank you for the advice. I have an issue though…. My “Settings” button doesn’t have a drop down menu to access Reading settings. When I click “Settings” it simply takes me to a page headed My Account with subheadings “Account Options” and Privacy. Neither one of which help.
Thoughts?
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You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard > Settings > Reading page. http://riggsabroad.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
Clicking this link should display all your blogs registered under the same username, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
If you do not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then
follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibility -
Still could not find the page with the data (even though I was logged in as admin). But…the link you attached worked like a charm! Thank you for your help!
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Note that when you want to go public, it takes search engines LONGER to find a formerly-private site than to find a brand new one. Allow eight to ten weeks after going public to be listed in search engines. IT’s why I never recommend doing that.
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I’m with raincoaster on that and I’ve said it here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/can-i-create-web-pages-and-blogs-before-i-make-them-live?replies=6
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