Theme previews not loading on my blog

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  irfarious · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 11:46 am

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  When I go to themes and click on preview before activating it for my blog, I see a messed up version of my blog. It loads like a basic HTML page with no css, no header or footer, no layout at all. Just dumps all the content of my blog on one page.

  I hope you got what I was trying to say. I wish I could post a screen shot to show exactly what I am talking about.

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  irfarious · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 11:47 am

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  The current theme has no issues. However, I am not able to check previews of new themes correctly.

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  designsimply · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 3:50 pm

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  I reviewed your site and found that you have the option for “Don’t use the theme’s original CSS” checked in your Appearance > Customize > CSS panel. That will cause CSS not to be applied in previews. Try unchecking that option in the CSS panel to see if that helps.

  Note that you may also need to temporarily comment out some of your custom CSS if you see other oddities. Most custom CSS won’t affect one theme compared to another because each theme is unique, but it’s possible that some things might have similar selectors between themes and cause some odd display issues.

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  irfarious · Member · Jan 7, 2015 at 6:40 am

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  Thanks so much. Tried what you said and it’s working fine now. Closing the topic.

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  designsimply · Member · Jan 7, 2015 at 9:09 pm

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  Thanks for the follow-up note and for closing the topic. :)

  Cheers.