How to reset css/fonts/styles when changing themes

[jenniferpinkley]

I have what I hope is a silly question. I was using the Executive Pro theme for my site and did a bunch of customization with fonts and font colors with a customization plugin I purchased (this was before the Genesis customization was available). I just switched to the Gallery Pro theme. One one of my sites that I didn't use the customization plugin everything looks perfect. On the site where I did use the plugin, some of the fonts are wrong and the comments button for blog posts is not available even though I am allowing blog comments in my settings. I'm thinking that some of my problems are the result of the customization I did and maybe those changes are still in my css? Is there a way to sort of "reset" my fonts/styles to the default and get rid of any customization?

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[Victor Font]

To remove all customizations from a child theme, download a fresh copy.

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[jenniferpinkley]

But that's my problem, I just installed a whole new theme and it retained the font sizes and colors from my old theme. Or are you saying I need to revert back to my original theme, reinstall that theme, then reinstall my current one?

[imprentavalencia]

any answer?.

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imprenta valencia

[Victor Font]

Not knowing what plugin you used, it's impossible to answer your question. Some plugins store their customizations in the database. Others insert shortcodes into your content, and yet others create inline CSS on the fly. And when you say a font is wrong, that's a very vague statement where only you can tell what is wrong or what is right. Please be more specific and maybe we can help.

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Victor
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Have you requested your free website audit yet?

[jenniferpinkley]

I used the Styles plugin by Paul Clark. https://wordpress.org/plugins/styles/

The fonts are "wrong" because they are retaining my customization from my old theme and not resetting to the theme defaults. The main problem is that blog posts have a large graphic as the header with the blog title overlaid on top of the graphic. In a clean install, the font is large and white and easy to read (h1). On the home page, the title of the blog post is slightly smaller (h2 or h3). In my current install, I can't change the size of the blog post title in the actual blog post (and it needs to be an h1 to be legible) without also changing the size of the blog title on my home page (I don't want h1 tags associated with titles on the home pages because that's way too big). Also, the colors are not displaying the way they should in a clean install (they should display in white when overlaid on text but black when page headings, and I can't get the colors correct). I also cannot get the comments to show up even though I have commenting functionality enabled for blog posts.

Basically I want to know how to wipe the customization. Could I delete all of the themes off of my server and reinstall the theme for a fresh install? Or is customization stored in other locations not associated with themes?

[jenniferpinkley]

OK I fixed my font/color problem and it was easy. I just activated my old theme then activated the theme I actually want to use. That wiped the customization and reset everything. Not sure why the settings were wrong for my first install, but now they're correct. However, commenting is still not working. I've contacted the theme designer for help with that.

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