Theme and layout will not change

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  eaandrews · Member · Jul 24, 2019 at 9:55 pm

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  I am trying to change the theme of my wordpress site and the layout nor does the theme change regardless of the selection I make. Help.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Jul 25, 2019 at 12:57 am

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  Hi there,

  When you attempt to change the theme, what happens? Do you receive some sort of error message? Are you going here to change your theme?

  https://wordpress.com/themes/eaandrews.wordpress.com

  Let me know and I’d be happy to look further into this for you.

  Thanks,

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  eaandrews · Member · Jul 25, 2019 at 2:51 am

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  On my dashboard, it shows the theme I selected, but when I go to customize it I see the first theme that I selected. Yes, I am using the themes within WordPress. I am wanting to use the Dara theme and it shows active, but does not show visually.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 25, 2019 at 5:05 am

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  I see Dara when I look at your site at https://eaandrews.wordpress.com/

  If that’s not what you see, please try clearing your browser cache – it could be that files from the previous theme is stuck in your browser, causing it to load the wrong files for your site.

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  eaandrews · Member · Jul 25, 2019 at 1:15 pm

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  But the layout does not look like the DARA theme, making it difficult to customize based on the theme layout. The layout I see is the Exhibit theme.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Jul 25, 2019 at 5:06 pm

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  Hmm. Are you looking at a different site?

  https://eaandrews.wordpress.com/ is using Dara as previously mentioned.

  If you see something different, take a screen shot and add it to the site media library where we can take a look.

  Each theme has an instructional setup page and a live demo site. Following the instructions will help you with the customization options.

  For example: https://wordpress.com/themes/dara/

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  thebluebloodduchess · Member · Aug 2, 2019 at 10:39 am

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  I am having a similar issue, I am attempting to change the theme to Sela and it will not change. I cleared my cache, also.
  https://wordpress.com/view/thebluebloodduchess.wordpress.com

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  themagicrobot · Member · Aug 2, 2019 at 11:03 am

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  https://thebluebloodduchess.wordpress.com/ is using the Sela theme. The instructions at https://wordpress.com/theme/sela say

  When you first activate Sela, your homepage will display posts in a traditional blog format. The demo site is using a static front page with the Front Page Template, so if you would like to copy the look of the site demo, follow these steps: