themes are not working correct

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  americaninbrasil · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 4:15 am

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  I have been trying to change my theme to no avail. Example: I am trying to change my theme to a Journalist theme and it doesnt save like the preview. It comes out a combination of my original and the new one. What do I do?

  thank you!

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 4:37 am

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  Again: the site linked to your name is not a WordPress.com blog; we need the correct link in order to help.

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  americaninbrasil · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 4:40 am

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  Try now. I just changed it on my profile…thanks

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 5:09 am

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  Very strange; it looks like bog-standard Kubrick to me, with a custom header. You did not just Preview but Activated the Journalist theme? I have to double-check these things.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 5:12 am

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  Appearently you have the CSS upgrade. CSS is not universal, it is theme specific. Before switching to the journalist, you will have to go to appearance > edit CSS, delete all your custom CSS from the window, make sure “add to existing…” is selected and then click “save changes.

  You will then have to start the customization of the journalist from scratch.

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  americaninbrasil · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 5:19 am

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  customization from scrath…meaning what?

  thanks

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  americaninbrasil · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 5:20 am

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  no. I activated it then had to swith it back because it was a hybrid of the two…

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 5:31 am

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  Try again, go to your Custom CSS field, take out ALL the contents, save. That should give you the regular Journalist theme. Then you can customize that as you wish, from scratch. Stuff you wrote to adapt Kubrick won’t work on the Journalist.

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  americaninbrasil · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 5:40 am

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  like the logo behind AIB blog? not all the script…right?

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 6:37 am

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  Everything you added to the Custom CSS; you will have to start over. You can easily enough add the header image in once you’ve made one the right size for Journalist, etc.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 6:47 am

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  …CSS is not universal, it is theme specific.

  That means you cannot use CSS customization you developed for one theme with a different theme. Each author decides how they are going to do the CSS and what they are going to name things.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 6:59 am

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  FYI, the Journalist themes do not have a custom header option. You will have to put the necessary code into the CSS and modify others to make room for a custom header.