Previewing and activating themes
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January 14, 2009
If you’re not sure about a theme and want to try it on for size before wrapping your live blog in it, that’s easy enough to do. Here’s how.
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January 17, 2009 at 4:24 pm |
çok açıklayıcı olmuş 😉
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January 17, 2009 at 9:46 pm |
Greetings all. Great concept for this site.
Here’s my first post. Using my iPhone, I was attempting, just because, to change the template of one of my blogs. When it brought up the floating “preview”, there was no way i was able to apply the change.
Anyone else have this issue? Have a solution? Well, i really don’t need a solution, i can’t imagine that many instances/situations where i would need to change a template via my iPhone, but thought what the heck, someone here might.
TIA,
Michael
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January 18, 2009 at 9:22 am |
Very good. Especially for bloggers that are new to WordPress. Keep it up wordpress. Probably some links will be more helpful, like they have in YouTube. The links are intregrated into the videos. Food for thougth. Remember that newcomers might just got frustrated to go around unguided and leave. Ciao.
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January 18, 2009 at 9:33 pm |
Very Nice !
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January 19, 2009 at 1:55 pm |
So nice !
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January 19, 2009 at 7:03 pm |
pergezojme wordpressin per kete iniciative.
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January 19, 2009 at 8:35 pm |
Very interesting.
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January 23, 2009 at 8:03 pm |
short and sweet
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February 4, 2009 at 2:25 am |
Nice video, Michael. Have a small problem. I started with one of the default theme that had a customizable banner. I loaded in a photo, it showed up nicely. Then I tried out another theme with a customizable banner. Looked even better, and my photo was there in the banner. But when I intalled the theme, my custom photo was not there, although my content showed up fine.
Any ideas? I don’t want to import the photo in again, it is already in my media directory.
Thanks!
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February 4, 2009 at 2:28 am |
Forgot to mention that I saved the new banner photo in the original theme, and when I viewed my blog after logging out, the photo was there.
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February 4, 2009 at 4:48 am |
Hi Creative Cat – there’s a WordPress.com forum thread all about the issue you’re experiencing that you might find helpful.
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February 4, 2009 at 8:03 pm |
Thanks, Michael! The email notification about new comments here included several links that were really helpful. I had not found anything that met my needs when I searched in the WordPress.com support area. This link is really excellent. Thanks so much! Here is what I copied out of the email, since it didn’t appear in your message above.
Hi Creative Cat – there’s a WordPress.com forum thread all about the issue you’re experiencing that you might find helpful.
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February 4, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
i don’t find how to change(lo load) to a theme that’s somewhere on the net
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February 4, 2009 at 8:08 pm |
Michael, Looks like links are deleted in these replies. Too bad, because the discussion in the link was really good.
Wonder if there is a way to share the link in a way that will show up here?
I am very pleased with the help I have recieved here and elsewhere.
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February 5, 2009 at 5:37 am |
Hi, Creative Cat – the links are there, they just need better colour differentiation by the look of it. I’ll speak to the design wizards. If you roll over the text you’ll see that the links are active.
Glad you were able to resolve your issue!
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February 4, 2009 at 8:43 pm |
i know to load a new theme on my local wordpress ; i ask for upload a theme to my blog located on wordpress.com ; thanks
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February 5, 2009 at 5:38 am |
Hi, omul simplu – the short answer is: you can’t. WordPress.com blogs don’t have the capability to install external themes or plugins for security reasons.
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February 5, 2009 at 1:49 pm |
Michael, re: rolling over links in these replies to see them…. I’m not sure what you see on your monitor, but the messages just end before the links are shown. There is no “blank” space for the links to be shown, in whatever color. I see this in your message on Feb 4, as well as my later message on the same day.
Curious thing, that.
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February 5, 2009 at 1:54 pm |
Oh—wait! I see it now! I wasn’t expecting it to look like that at all! I was looking for a visible link address. Wonder if there are other links I have missed because of this.
You are right, it would be helpful to see the linked phrase in a different color!
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June 28, 2009 at 9:55 am |
Very good
The theme that you show at the beginning of the video is Albeo, but i can’t find it in 2.8.
Any idea what it might be under, or has it been removed/
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July 11, 2009 at 12:50 am |
This was a good video but I’ve been searching and searching & cannot find any detailed list of which themes support widgets and which do not.
Thanks for any help.
Janice
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July 14, 2009 at 4:57 am |
There really isn’t one. If you are looking for a theme on the WordPress.org site, normally theme authors will indicate in either the description or the tags that a theme is widget-ready.
Otherwise—and especially if the theme doesn’t mention widget-readiness in any way—installing the theme and testing it is the only way to be sure.
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August 5, 2009 at 4:27 pm |
Very very useful and interesting. Thank you wordpress!
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August 9, 2009 at 6:21 pm |
I’m having trouble finding the comicpress theme that I have downloaded to my hard drive, and (as far as I know), in the appropriate folder. I got it to work yesterday and then something happened and it went away. Any ideas?
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August 10, 2009 at 1:49 am |
Run a quick search for it on your computer, and if all else fails, download it again. If you need further help with theming and your WordPress installation, feel free to visit the WordPress.org support forums. You’ll likely be able to find the best answers for your questions there.
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August 10, 2009 at 10:08 pm |
I got it to work on Saturday. Something happened when I was filling in some of my info (don’t ask me what page it was. That was about a hundred pages ago) and it got messed up. I lost the page. So I ended up starting a new blog and now, when I go to the page where I’m supposed to be adding the theme, there’s no option to do it. I’ve deleted the Comicpress file and downloaded it again, about three time. It’s in the “themes” folder within one of the WordPress folders within the Sites folder. I downloaded the WordPress Manager and installed it in the Plug-in folder, right next to the Themes folder.
One shortcut on the ComicPress download page says to click on the “plug ins” option in my account and do it from there. Again, no such option.
I have so many friends who’ve been successful with this and I’ve never heard about it being so hard. What’s up? I’m running it from a Mac and have downloaded, installed and set up MAMP as well.
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August 11, 2009 at 2:10 am |
Especially since you’re dealing with both a theme and a plugin that you’ve downloaded for self-hosted WordPress, please visit the WordPress.org support forums and ask your question there.
You’ll be able to find help there much more quickly than here at WordPress.tv.
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October 20, 2009 at 10:25 pm |
Will all Plugins work for all themes???
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November 16, 2009 at 2:37 pm |
very usefull
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June 24, 2011 at 11:33 am |
Thank’s 😀
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