Revert to old theme

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  bruceross · Member · Feb 1, 2015 at 1:53 am

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  I mistakenly changed the theme on my blog but cannot find the original photographic theme that I had on the free themes. Is there a way of reverting to the original theme. I am not a regular blogger.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2015 at 7:15 pm

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  Hi there,
  Are you referring to this blog? https://bruceross.wordpress.com/ and did you succeed? I am asking because it is wearing a retired theme that no longer supports all WordPress.COM features called Vigilance.

  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 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 “activate” 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.