Why did links disappear when changing from one theme to another?

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  patticlement · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 2:50 am

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  I set my blog up using yoko and I tried twenty eleven live preview to see what it would look like. However, when I clicked the live preview, I could not find the many links I had setup inYoko. The details to Twenty eleven lead me to believe it supports links so why would they have not shown up?
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  timethief · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 3:09 am

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  No content is ever lost or changed and no links are every broken when changing themes.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 4:21 am

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  Can you identify a post or page where this happened, and also perhaps give us a location of a link that disappeared?

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  patticlement · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 6:09 am

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  Yes, my scenario documented above. When I clicked live preview today in twenty eleven to see if I might want to change themes, none of my links were visible.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 6:27 am

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  The live preview might not show everything completely and totally correctly. Changing themes will not delete links in posts or pages since all your content is saved in the MySQL database, not in normal files. There is no way a theme can do that.

  Now the caveat: In some themes that show excerpts on the main page of a site, you will not see links that were in the post. That is because with excerpts, all formatting and HTML is stripped out of the excerpt. In that case, a link that was with the text pulled for an excerpt would not show.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 6:52 am

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  I’ll also add that some themes make very little distinction between normal text and linked text, so sometimes it is hard to see them.

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  patticlement · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 7:28 am

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  Thanks so much for all of your insights. I am referring to linked websites that show up in the sidebar.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 7:36 am

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  Ok. What happens when you change themes, is that all of the widgets that you have in the sidebar will be moved down and into the inactive widgets area at appearance > widgets. That has to do with the fact that there are multiple layout configurations and names for the sidebar stuff in the theme files. All you have to do is once the new theme is active, go to appearance > widgets and drag your widgets out of the inactive widgets area and into the sidebar and arrange as you desire. You can collapse the upper “available widgets” area by clicking on the right end of its title bar to make things a little easier.

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  patticlement · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 8:20 am

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  Thanks a million! Now it makes sense.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 5:22 pm

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  You are welcome.