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Wordpress - Blank Website after changing Theme Confused?!

by willyboy104
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Hey.

I recently let my friend change her theme in wordpress admin, instead of me doing it myself and since then the website has just come up blank, whether I try to go to wp-admin or the normal publicly viewed page it just comes up blank.

I don't understand why or how I can sort it out so please could someone help or advise me, its so annoying.

The site is www.nufrocks.com

Thanks
#blank #changing #confused #theme #website #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author senderbot
    Hi,

    Try this. Open up your website using FTP. Navigate to the themes folder

    Go WP-Content > Themes

    Once in the themes section look for the theme you normally use (the one that is now faulty). Download it as a backup. Then delete it. Now look for the default theme and change it's name to the name of the theme you were using.

    For example if you were using the theme - bluegreen then change the default theme to "bluegreen"

    Then refresh your wordpress page. When the WP scripts try to access your faulty theme they will now use the default theme instead and you should be able to access your site.

    You can then take a look at your faulty theme with a text editor to see what might have gone wrong.

    Cheers

    Max
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  • Profile picture of the author tbunch
    Originally Posted by willyboy104 View Post

    website has just come up blank, whether I try to go to wp-admin or the normal publicly viewed page it just comes up blank.

    I don't understand why or how I can sort it out so please could someone help or advise me, its so annoying.
    I would advise against changing any file names. You could be just digging a deeper hole.

    Just remove (either in your file manager or ftp) all themes except the original 2 that come with wp /default/ and /classic/ you can put the others in another temporary file or just delete them for now.

    This should get you back in with the default theme and at least get you some-what back in business.
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  • Profile picture of the author woodsja
    Yeah, I've had this happen to me before. Usually the theme has some PHP error or missing some sort of configuration information. Just open your FTP client and delete the theme in question (after backing it up). That will do the trick.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    That's a complicated method described in reply #2.

    As others said: simply delete the faulty theme via FTP. If the theme set from the admin panel doesn't exist anymore... WP will always fall back to the "default" without you doing anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author senderbot
    Hi,

    You learn something every day. I should have known that deleting everything except default would mean that wordpress would use that as a "default" theme. Doh!

    So yeah, in retrospect, my method, whilst working fine, is the long way round.

    Cheers

    Max
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  • Profile picture of the author webinsiders
    My guess? The theme file you downloaded was corrupt and missing some files, or your FTP got messed up and didn't upload all the files it was supposed to. Try erasing the theme folder completely and re-uploading it.
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