Posted 2 years ago #
I have recently upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress software on my blog :
http://www.damienbenoit.com/blog/
But now, almost everyday or atleast 2-3 times a week my blog Theme gets reset to NOTHING. Meaning when you got to view the site, nothing comes up but a white page. I go look and it shows that no theme is selected and I gotta reselect my created theme. I removed the 2 default themes and only have mine and another redit whatever its called theme. Any help?
The reason for "nothing" is the removal of the default theme: that's the fallback when something goes wrong...
Put back the 'default' theme and see if the blog would revert to it or not. If yes, then you can search for the many topics discussing the causes for reverting back to default.
Posted 1 year ago #
I see, thanks!
Posted 1 year ago #
Ok I went through but dont know exactly what my problem is, Some people said its maybe plugins.
Posted 1 year ago #
Can someone better help me? I went through searching for a week now and still havn't found a working answer.
Posted 1 year ago #
Ok, so far, i think things might work. I removed the alex king mobile plugin and also changed my theme folder name to default and default is now default2. ill reply if it doesn't work after that.
Posted 1 year ago #
Hi, I am searching for a solution to the same problem, the forum seems littered with requests for help but definitive answer as to what the problem is or how to fix it has not been given, or I have not found it yet?
Posted 1 year ago #
Well never saw a solution so took the path of least resistance and defaulted the folder of the troublesome theme
The definitive answer is that the problem is caused when Wordpress encounters an error in a theme or possibly a plugin causes such an error. WP is designed to be robust so when it encounters such an error it doesn't crash or hang, instead it stops using the theme and uses the default theme instead.
You need to remember that themes and plugins are not made by WP but are created by users. As such WP doesn't have much control over their quality (which is why it is designed to survive any such problems as described above).
If you experience this problem you can use the work-around mentioned above. You have your custom theme and your default theme but you replace the default theme files with a second copy of your custom theme. Then, when WP encounters a problem with your custom theme it will switch to the default, which is really your custom theme. Problem with this is that the error could occur again and you don't really know what will happen then.
The actual fix for the problem is to thoroughly test to find out which theme or plugin is causing the problem by removing each one and testing (possibly for long periods) and dumping the faulty one - not good if it is your favorite theme.
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