WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How to switch to a new theme and keep stuff.... http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-switch-to-a-new-theme-and-keep-stuff WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How to switch to a new theme and keep stuff.... en Tue, 21 May 2013 04:03:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 rebelsprite on "How to switch to a new theme and keep stuff...." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-switch-to-a-new-theme-and-keep-stuff#post-815493 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:56:51 +0000 rebelsprite 815493@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks! I figured that must be the case for the pics....but I wanted to double check that I wasn't just missing something before I went through the effort.

Thanks also for telling me about the widgets.

My blog is very simple so I think that should take care of it...

]]> justpi on "How to switch to a new theme and keep stuff...." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-switch-to-a-new-theme-and-keep-stuff#post-815268 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:24:24 +0000 justpi 815268@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Other thing to keep in mind: if you switch to a differently designed theme, the widgets you have added may disappear. In that case you go to Appearance > Widgets and drag them back from Inactive to Sidebar.

]]> timethief on "How to switch to a new theme and keep stuff...." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-switch-to-a-new-theme-and-keep-stuff#post-815264 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:19:58 +0000 timethief 815264@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

I don't see an option for using those already cropped images for my custom header. It seems I have to download them all again from my computer and re-crop again?

When you change themes you do need to create and upload new headers and featured images in accord with the dimensions specified by the new theme.

]]> rebelsprite on "How to switch to a new theme and keep stuff...." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-switch-to-a-new-theme-and-keep-stuff#post-815257 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:15:36 +0000 rebelsprite 815257@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sorry, I'm a newbie and this is probably a stupid question. I just got my first blog up and running in January, I am using twenty eleven, but I dislike the infinite scrolling they just switched to. So I want to switch to a new theme - I know how to do that, but when I tried, I noticed, though I still have my whole media library intact, I don't see an option for using those already cropped images for my custom header. It seems I have to download them all again from my computer and re-crop again? If you know the answer to that - and anything else I might need to keep in mind when switching themes, please let me know. I know I could spend a lot of time looking this up - but it seems it's already going to take some extra time just to set stuff up with a new theme, so if anyone has fast tips/pointers, I would really appreciate it. I switched my theme back to twenty eleven for now, becuase once I switched to a different one my blog didn't look right, and I didn't have time to fix it all up right now.

Thanks for your help :-)

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