How do I delete a wordpress theme and its complete settings?

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Hello warriors,
Hope you can help me, I screwed some settings from my wordpress theme, so I proceeded to uninstall it and reinstall it, but it is keeping the same information and every setting, I am desperate now =(... I need to delete the theme and the whole settings... I make sure that the theme folder was deleted from ftp as well... so I don't know what to do, does anyone knows how to completely delete every setting on the wordpress theme?
Thanks!
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  • Unactivate it first. Then, you delete the theme's folder. If that doesn't work. reinstall your wordpress if its new.
  • Which theme are you using? Does your theme have a support forum? It sounds as if the theme has stored its settings in the database. Did you edit the theme via the "editor", ie directly alter the code, or does your theme have it's own theme options area? If that's the case, then you could install wordpress on a sub-domain, install the theme there and then copy the settings across manually.

    Another thought as I'm typing this. Install WP on a sub-domain, install the theme. Then, if you used the "editor", do that on the fresh install. Copy all of the code in the file you altered and paste it into the damaged set up. That should restore the original settings.

    Hope that makes sense.
  • Agreed with rosetrees that it seems like there are settings saved in your database. If you have cPanel, try navigating into your WP database with PHPMyAdmin and see if you can spot the table for the theme.

    You can either drop the table (if, indeed the theme has its own table and didn't just add a column or row to a native WP table) or install the theme again and adjust the settings through the editor.
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    How do I delete a wordpress theme and its complete settings?

    Hello warriors, Hope you can help me, I screwed some settings from my wordpress theme, so I proceeded to uninstall it and reinstall it, but it is keeping the same information and every setting, I am desperate now =(... I need to delete the theme and the whole settings... I make sure that the theme folder was deleted from ftp as well... so I don't know what to do, does anyone knows how to completely delete every setting on the wordpress theme? Thanks!