restore original theme, with none of my content; clean wordpress.com blog
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Hi,
I’d like to start over from scratch using the Ocean theme, as if I’d never touched anything after creating my URL:In fiddling with the header, I removed the “Home” page. I created new test “Home” pages, but I’d still like the one I had. I had confused pages with menus, tabs. Subsequently deleted and emptied trash so I wouldn’t be confused. Duh! Want to start from scratch, be born again!
Have spent many hours in the forums, support, watched videos, read help, googled. I cannot find out how to do this. Some of the videos and such are from years ago as it is, and wordpress.com interface has changed since then. Have learned other useful things along the way, that will be awesome once I have a clean blog to work with!
So, please can you tell me, step by step how to keep my current url http://allsaintsepiscopalchurch.wordpress.com/ but start over from scratch, restore the original Ocean theme, revert to the default wordpress.com blog untouched?
Gratefully yours – Sharon
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Good that you did not delete your URL – don’t ever delete the URL (blog) as then the URL is gone forever.
Looks like you are almost there – go into the Post editor and delete (put in trash) all the Posts except the Hello World.
In the Page Editor delete the “Need to Restore” and “Test Page”
The above should get you back at the start and you will still have the Ocean Mist Theme.
Good luck.
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I know re the URL!
Okay I did as you say, and I think I’ve been at this point before. It still doesn’t look like the Ocean Mist in the templates preview that comes to the top of the templates window (I don’t mean the preview of it applied to my blog).
When I apply it to my clean test site, it looks different there too.
The widgets on the right are different–there are more of them and under Links there’s a list of WordPress links. I don’t get that, or the some of the other widgets.
I’m thinking what I want to do isn’t possible, maybe this is as close as I can get?
Thanks very very much for your response! I’m trying to get this up before Lent begins, lol.
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Every theme has a default display of what appears to be widgets in the sidebar. In fact they are not widgets at all. When we install a new theme we simply go here > Appearance > Widgets and drag and drop the widgets we want into the sidebar. Doing that over-rides the default display.
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Also note that we do not have to display the string of WordPress links. We can delete them all if we so choose or replace them with links to sites of our own choosing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/links-widget/
If we do not want to use widgets the solution is a simple one. We drag and drop an empty text widget into the top of the sidebar. Then we remove all other widgets.
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Thanks timethief! Believe me I know re “overriding” I went into Ocean Mist and got to work. But then I hit a snag and thought had trashed the main/home page, didn’t like what I’d done and thought would be easy to undo it all. By then, now I read your comments, I surely forgot what the original really looked and did…
And being a perfectionist, I wanted to make sure I know how to fix things before I got too far into it.
Have now switched to “Twenty-Ten” which as most popular and created by wordpress gurus, perhaps will make it easier for me to stay on track with examples, and more current support and forums.
I have my practice/test blog now and won’t make any big moves until I beta there first.
I’m accustomed to being able to edit the actual files via ftp, cute ftp, web design software, and obviously was over-confident here. For what I want to accomplish SIMPLE is key. I need to make it so others can easily update…
Well thanks a ton!!!
Now my new header photo won’t upload, takes forever, then an eternity after crop, then not there…wordpress server fairies must be busy playing poker this Saturday evening.
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Reduced file size, uploaded…now trying to find where to edit Header text/font/color in my so-called custom header…wish me luck in the muck. Doesn’t seem twenty-ten allows changing header font.
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• No theme allows you to change fonts directly, except if you have the paid CSS upgrade.
• In all themes you can change the font of any element via Typekit.
• If by “header” font you mean the blog title and tagline, themes in which these elements are inside the header image area allow you to hide the text (so that you can add a custom header image with the title and tagline incorporated in it). -
Thanks very much for a complete, lucid answer! I’ve been working with my test site on various interface settings and changes. Now you say it, it’s is obvious that only type within the header IMAGE itself can be changed.
Some templates say the header can be changed, and that’s true of the image and what the text says, but not of the font of that text, except as you describe. I knew I’d changed header font in a template I tried, but couldn’t recall which one or how; wish I’d asked sooner.
Will give Typekit a try, they offer 2 free fonts. Good deal.
Meanwhile, I’m creating a header image using a Word table, which will let me include my jpeg, typeface, and I can color it, add borders or whatever at will. Also easier to measure. I’ll then screen shot it, and upload. I’m sure there are other ways to do this, but I know Word pretty well and this workaround is easy.
WordPress.com is awesome, and the forums and support the best!
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