Wrong Custom Appearance
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I created a blog site with the My Life theme however, when i type the web address it does not come up that way. Why and how do i fix this?
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You don’t have any content yet. The detailed theme description is found here http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/my-life/
By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
For creating a page see here
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-pageFor editing see:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
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Thank you for all the information. I have set up a custom background and photo, along with the My Life theme. When I type nicfradettehorsemanship.wordpress.com, none of my customization appears. I am not sure how I can be sure that when someone visits my page this way, the custom theme and background appear on top. I have created one page and a test post as well but seem to be doing something incorrect. Any further help would be much appreciated! Thank you.
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I have set up a custom background
Go to > Dashboard > Background and set it up there and “save changes”
Note the live demo site so you can see what part is actually background http://mylifedemo.wordpress.com/ It does not change behind the text in posts or pages.and photo
Go to Appearance > Header. You can select an image to be shown at the top of your site by uploading from your computer or choosing from your media library. After selecting an image you will be able to crop it. Suggested width is 1010 pixels. Suggested height is 250 pixels.
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Thank you. I had previously set up a background, custom color and photo to appear with the My Life theme. My question is around how to see all these customizations when someone goes to my site. For example, when someone types the web site, I’d like the custom photo, background, etc. to show up rather than what does now. Only when I click on the top left logo and Customization, it shows what I have set up. Hope that makes sense.
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You cannot have both a background color and a background image. You have to select one or the other.
WordPress.com sells custom design upgrades. We can only “preview” changes that do not actually display on the blog unless we purchase an upgrade. If you have not purchased the custom design upgrade note that no changes you try out in the customizer aside from those such as Custom Background, Custom Header, etc. which are stated on the theme description pages in the features column (right hand side) will be visible to visitors.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/If you are using the preview mode for the Custom Design upgrade some of the settings in that mode will save but they won’t show up on the front end unless you purchase the upgrade.
To go back to the free options, go to Appearance → Themes → Customize → Colors and click the “exit the preview” link in yellow at the top of the panel on the right.
See also: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/video-tutorial-customizing-your-theme/
You do not need to load the design tools unless you have the Custom Design upgrade. All of these functions can be accessed from your dashboard – without loading the custom design tools – no upgrade required.
Appearance > Header
Appearance > Background
Appearance > Theme Options (applicable only to some themes)
Settings > Reading (set a static front page)
Site Title and Tagline > Settings > General -
Ah, thank you. I needed to purchase the upgrade. It appears with my customization now, but not with the My Life theme layout…lol I will have to continue to figure out that part later.
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@roman088
Hi,
I just want you to know that I reported you to Staff for spamming our WordPress.COM technical support forums.The only themes we can use on WordPress.COM blogs are licensed and adapted to run on our multiuser software the themes are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/
There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs for security reasons and we cannot:
upload any third party themes,
create child themes,
create our own themes,
edit templates,
create own own layouts,
or use stylesheets from other themes.Relevant support docs:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/
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