Switching back to retired theme Vigilence

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  fototype · Member · Jan 11, 2013 at 2:57 pm

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  I accidentally changed to a new theme, thinking it was only a preview. My old theme, Vigilance, is retired, so I don’t seem to be able to switch back!!

  How can I undo this?? I’ve branded a logo to match the Vigilance theme.

  Tears are about to ensue…

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  justpi · Member · Jan 11, 2013 at 9:29 pm

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  Retired means no longer available in newly created blogs: blogs created before a theme becomes retired aren’t affected.

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  fototype · Member · Jan 13, 2013 at 3:41 pm

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  What finally worked was to go to Appearance/Themes while in my dashboard, and search for the theme from there. Eventually my theme came up, with the option to save and activate it. (It seemed that I had to do this several times; I don’t know why the option never appeared when I initially kept trying to switch back.)

  Searching from http://theme.wordpress.com/ did not even generate a result for my theme name. The key seemed to be searching from the dashboard.

  All drama has subsided.

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  justpi · Member · Jan 13, 2013 at 4:33 pm

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  “What finally worked” is what I had already implied. As I said, “blogs created before a theme becomes retired aren’t affected”: that is, you go to Appearance > Themes and activate the theme the way you wold activate any other theme.

  “Searching from http://theme.wordpress.com/ did not even generate a result for my theme name.” Yes: retired themes are hidden from view in the Theme Showcase site. You can see them this way:
  http://theme.wordpress.com/retired/vigilance/