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You're right that I gave you the wrong URL for the blog, but the one you listed above is correct, and all of the settings (custom header image, widgets) were wiped out with the switch. I'll ask the user for more info/to join our conversation here.

The specific nature of the lost settings are crucial to troubleshooting here: if there were widgets lost, what were they; if there were other settings lost (Dashboard > Settings), what were they and what were they changed to.

I think I've figured out at least part of this story. This blog used to use a different theme -- NOT TwentyTen. I just went through the themes on the site to try to find it, but I think that it may have been removed from the site because I didn't realize that anyone was using it (or they started using it after I had sorted through unused themes). I don't know the name of the theme offhand, but I could pick it out of a lineup, so maybe we should look at a list of the themes removed recently from site, I could search for it. Then, maybe we could re-add it and hope that the settings on that theme come back.

So, if you could either show me how to sort through Git to find the commit removing the themes, I could start there, or if you could give me a list of recently deleted themes, that would work, too.

Hi Boone. Matt was in the office today when I tried to get on the Living Lab blog and found that nothing was loading. When it did come back--thanks for that!--it came back without the customized header, and without any of the widgets I had in the sidebar, stuff like a category cloud and tag cloud (I'm trying to decide which is better to use, categories or tags, so I have both), calendar, recent comments, links, and others that I can't remember. I remember that next to Plugins it used to say 17 and now it says 3--was that how many I had clicked, or how many I hadn't? I'm not particularly scientific about how I set up the blog, but I did find some useful widgets and plugins, and I don't know that any are still there. I can certainly redo the blog, but if the snag is a sign of a bigger problem, then I'll hold off on making changes while you poke at it.

About what Matt just wrote--I don't think it used to have a different theme. I used TwentyTen for my course last semester, liked it, and probably went with that right away. maybe I tried something different briefly but then settled on TwentyTen quickly. I could be wrong about all of that, but I really have no memory of using any other theme. In fact, when I asked about why there was no option to reply to a comment, and Matt suggested I use a newer theme, I remember wondering if TwentyTen were actually some old futuristic theme invented during year one of blogging and named such for the wonderment of reaching the end of the first decade of the new millennium.

Thanks, Jody. Did you change to TwentyTen recently? Because I know for a fact that you were using something different at least until the last time I looked at the Living Lab blog. (I know because I wondered why you were using an older theme but didn't want to say anything).

Found it.

Jody, the theme I remember you using is called Blue Sky. Here's a screenshot of what it looked like: http://wpthemeshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/bluesky.jpg

And it looks like I deleted BlueSky from the themes folder on January 25 (Boone -- here is the commit - https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/404cce6521a594aa6f1300e9439ea25fac001b3d )

I believe that this explains the problem. To fix it, I'd suggest we re-upload the theme and see if the widget settings come back.

Hopefully, this will fix this ticket: https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/ae0eb84bbd6e8e513f3e224da915a9ac2d2700a7

wow--that does look familiar. So I just completely made up using TwentyTen? But I did use it in my class last semester--I really am not making that up! Thanks for your help, and I'm happy to use TwentyTen and redo the stuff I did--let me know if that's the best thing to do.

Hi Jody -- let's see what happens Boone re-adds the theme to the site and reactivates it on your blog. Of course, if you would prefer to customize TwentyTen instead, please let us know. But I am fairly sure that this is what happened, and that it was my fault. Apologies!!!!!

It's likely that widget settings didn't carry over because they are dependent on the names of the sidebars, which are themselves theme-dependent.