• Resolved tdomeet

    (@tdomeet)


    Hey,

    I have a little question :).

    I installed wordpress and changed the theme to “Twenty Seventeen”. After the change the page was not looking correctly. The pre-images were not loaded like on http://testone.tdomeet.de/

    After I used the option customize and just press “publish” without doing any changes the websites looks like this : http://test.tdomeet.de/

    So far so good 🙂 BUT, if i change the theme again to a random one with or without plugins needed the theme is not going to change, it acts like an overlay to the previous one like here: http://testtwo.tdomeet.de/ (installed the theme “Leo” over “Twenty Seventeen”)

    Do you know if this is a normal behaviour?

    Thanks for help and best regards,

    TDoMeeT

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    All of your tests are correct and normal behavior.

    Themes generally don’t come with example content or pre-loaded images.

    Additionally on your last test site, I only see traces of Leo, no traces of Twenty Seventeen.

    Thread Starter tdomeet

    (@tdomeet)

    You can see traces of Leo if you press “Kontakt” “über mich” it uses the pictures from Twenty Seventeen.

    On other Theme its like a more crazy mix between two themes.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by tdomeet.
    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    The pictures aren’t from the theme though, they’re in your media library and it’s just using what’s where.

    Thread Starter tdomeet

    (@tdomeet)

    here a sample for the mixed theme.. normal installation without installing a theme. I just installed Leo straight. http://testthree.tdomeet.de/

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    What you’re seeing is how Leo operates, it’s just filling in with images that are already in your Media library.

    There is absolutely no “mixing” going on here, this is absolutely 100% normal operation.

    Most themes don’t include image, some do, and pretty much all themes will make use of existing images in your Media library some way or another (especially if they’re already set as the post’s or page’s Featured Image).

    Thread Starter tdomeet

    (@tdomeet)

    okay thanks for answering 🙂

    It´s not the best behavior that if you change the theme it looks like http://testtwo.tdomeet.de/ , but if you install it after a fresh installation it looks like http://testthree.tdomeet.de/…

    But i´ll close this case now 🙂

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I suppose, think of it this way:

    Media management is almost always entirely up to WordPress, media is rarely included with or managed by themes.

    It is not the theme’s job to totally undo all content and media just by changing a theme, that would be incredibly destructive.

    It’s the theme’s job to seamlessly work with the existing content and images, so that you can safely change at any time.

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