WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How to try a new theme without losing the old one http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-try-a-new-theme-without-losing-the-old-one WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How to try a new theme without losing the old one en Sat, 25 May 2013 03:34:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "How to try a new theme without losing the old one" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-try-a-new-theme-without-losing-the-old-one#post-985947 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:33:52 +0000 timethief 985947@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It works great. When you have a mirror blog you know exactly what every change will appear like on your main blog. Not only that, but as it's a "mirror" you can export from your main blog and import the XML files into it periodically and have a backup of your main blog. Every blogger needs a private test blog and every blogger ought to conisder making it a mirror blog. :)

]]> wedgeintheround on "How to try a new theme without losing the old one" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-try-a-new-theme-without-losing-the-old-one#post-985941 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:30:02 +0000 wedgeintheround 985941@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the tip on creating a mirror! Will try that out.

]]> timethief on "How to try a new theme without losing the old one" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-try-a-new-theme-without-losing-the-old-one#post-985849 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:17:20 +0000 timethief 985849@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, it's not possible to have more than one themes on a blog at any point in time. That's why I always recommend that bloggers register another blog, make the visibility private and use it as a test blog. You can even make it a mirror blog so you can see the effect of theme changes and other chnages. Scroll down to "Creating a mirror blog".

If you are referring to CSS editing you have done please read on. CSS is theme specific. If you have custom CSS and later change themes, you need to delete whatever CSS you have in the Editor, otherwise, you’ll get undesired results.

To ‘reset’ a theme, you need to delete the CSS in the Editor, make sure the “add to existing CSS” radio button is checked, then save. Things should go back to normal.

]]> bridgedancer on "How to try a new theme without losing the old one" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-try-a-new-theme-without-losing-the-old-one#post-985844 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:13:13 +0000 bridgedancer 985844@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I would like to try Oxygen theme on one of my blogs but I don't want to lose all the work I've done on the current theme. Is this possible and How do I do this?
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