Theme does not appear the same when changed

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  kmaddcity · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 8:20 am

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  very new to this guys…
  I changed the theme from the selection of themes that is available to us – I get 2 problems:
  1. theme I changed to does not look like shown in example of with my content
  2. when I try to go back to my old theme it also does not look the same – thick red line is missing from neo-sapien theme

  you can have a look…

  http://www.kmaddcity.com

  I really do not know what to do

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 8:53 am

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  If the red band in Neo Sapien was missing, I would assume that was a temporary problem with WP’s image servers.

  The preview for all formats is not exact, but it’s good enough to give you a general idea. All you have to do is decide what you like best.

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  kmaddcity · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 11:35 am

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  in a meantime I created a new account and selected the same theme – and it works fine.

  I then copied the code in case for some crazy reason it was corrupt and copied it in the blog with a problem – still no difference.

  I will wait till tomorrow but this is dissapointing

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 3:49 pm

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  The one thing I’ve noticed is that you are using your own CSS style sheet instead of just including the changes you wanted to make and “adding” that to the existing stylesheet. Your CSS stylesheet file is stored in a different location, and as such, the relative image links in your stylesheet end up broken and will have to be changed to absolute (http://….).

  For the background image that link would be: https://s-ssl.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/neo-sapien-05/images/bg_body.gif

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  kmaddcity · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 4:51 pm

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  where do I change this?
  I have selected different theme and then changed back to old one – would not that fix the problem?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 5:55 pm

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  No, what you have to do, is first copy out all the CSS in the CSS edit box to a text file so you do not lose any changes that you made, then delete everything from the edit box, and then make sure “add to existing stylesheet” is selected and then save. That will revert you back to the original CSS. After making CSS changes, if you switch themes, your CSS mods go with you which can cause issues since CSS is theme dependent.