Changing custom theme to default theme

  • heyerinelisabeth

    (@heyerinelisabeth)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    Hi, I am in the process of trying to update the site of a nonprofit I am interning for. They have a custom theme that was made for them but it isn’t serving their purposes anymore . I am wondering if it would be possible to activate another theme that I have uploaded, try it out, and if it doesn’t work, I could switch back to the custom theme. Does activating a default theme make it impossible to “press undo” and just go back to the old theme?

    I can’t make the changes they need myself because I have no CSS, HTML, whatever experience.

    I’m reading about plugins and widgets which all seem really helpful! But I don’t seem to know how to figure out if the current (custom) theme is “widget enabled”. SOMEONE HELP.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    10 years, 3 months ago

    In your situation I would seriously consider setting up WordPress locally – to replicate the live site – so that you can develop or test in peace. Are you doing this?

    EDIT: Hi Josh 🙂

    Josh

    (@josh401)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Okay… to see if you have widgets in your theme.. go to your admin panel -> appearance -> widgets.

    If you see an area for widgets over on the right… slide a text widget over there. Type in some test text.. and click Save.

    Now, go to the front-end of your site and see if you notice a new widget at the top, left, right, or bottom of the website.

    EDIT: And, of course, Mr. Nevins suggestion as well 😉

    Thread Starter heyerinelisabeth

    (@heyerinelisabeth)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Nope, no widget tab under appearance.
    Andrew – wow, I looked into setting up locally and I just know that I do not have the knowhow to do that. Major WP/computer geek newbie here. Sorry guys.
    So it’s not an easy “yes/no” answer to whether I can switch from a custom theme to default theme and back?

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    10 years, 3 months ago

    You do have the option in the dashboard to easily switch back at the click of a link – however that’s assuming nothing goes wrong when you do switch.
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Selecting_the_Active_Theme

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