Ready to give your WordPress.com site a new look? This video shows you how to safely switch themes without losing your posts, pages, or media — plus how to recover your homepage content if it seems to disappear.
What you’ll learn:
– How to preview a theme before activating it
– How to activate a new theme safely
– Why your homepage may look different after switching themes
– How to recover content from your old homepage
– How to create a recovery draft page for old content
– How to keep your homepage content in place when switching themes
– How to use your new theme’s built-in homepage design
– How to test a new theme on a staging site before going live
Time stamps:
0:00 Switching Themes Safely
0:25 Switching Themes
0:37 Previewing a Theme
1:04 Activating Your New Theme
2:13 Why Empty Homepage?
2:56 Recovering Old Homepage
4:00 Creating a Recovery Draft Page
5:11 Theme’s Built-In Homepage
6:03 Testing Themes With Staging
7:08 Syncing Staging Changes Live
Extra resources:
– Change your theme: https://wordpress.com/support/themes/changing-themes/
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Need more help? Please visit https://wordpress.com/support/
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