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Everyone,
I have a Wordpress site on my hands, and I wanted to try a new Theme; I changed the active one and, unsatisfied, I selected again the previous one... and I found the website's appearance to be changed.
Is there a safe way to restore the site's appearance or are the settings lost and I need to recreate them?
Depending on the theme this could happen. It's not great coding, however I have seen that happen. Did you restore to the exact theme though or did you make changes (even a name change will cause reverting to defaults)?
It may be as easy as once you go activate the original theme, go into it's settings page and click save.
Some themes in their setup section will have a back up and restore option. If you previously backed up the settings you can restore them there.
If you don't have any of the theme backed up, you can always do an actual database restoration from before the switch and this will revert the changes back to their working state.
