undo theme change?

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  suzwpblogs · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 5:33 pm

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  I was setting up a new blog, and I changed a theme on one of my current blogs by accident. How do I get it back to the previous theme?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2014 at 5:35 pm

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  Themes are just “skins”.

  You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do some work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme and have done any CSS editing.

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes and browse themes until you find one you like and click “activate” or type in the name of the theme you want to use and
  click the “activate” link when it appears.

  After you change your theme all you need to do is go here Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Inactive Widgets and re-install them where you want them to appear. The widget contents and settings will be the same as they were prior to changing themes.

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  suzwpblogs · Member · Oct 26, 2014 at 1:53 am

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  thanks – I appreciate the response. I can’t find my original theme – I’ve had it in place for a few years. There doesn’t seem to be anything similar. I had done a lot of work on it to get it right, custom menus etc. I’m hoping there is just a way to get it to revert back to the original!