Through trying to customise my wordpress blog I think i've fudged some of the settings as many themes now don't display correctly. Is there a way to restore the default wordpress settings without losing all my posts?
Reset to default settings? (5 posts)
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SteveVenezia
Posted 7 months ago # -
Before you do anything, does the default theme display correctly? If it does then the changes you have made are only affecting individual themes, not the WordPress installation overall.
So it could be as simple as reinstalling the themes that are not displaying correctly from newly downloaded copies.
In terms of your posts, in the worst case, you can export your posts in a form that can be imported into another WordPress site.
Admin / Tools / Export
And then start all over, and import the posts.
But most likely that won't be necessary. -
Posted 7 months ago #No it seems the default one won't load properly either. The central image doesn't load for any of the themes.
So is there a reset button? Or do i have to re-install?
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thisisedie
Posted 7 months ago #Were you messing with core files? No there isn't a "reset button".
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Well, there could be a reset button, of sorts. That would be to reinstall the WordPress files on top of the existing files . That's all you need to do - there's no upgrade involved.
(Wordpress consists of posts and settings in the database, and files on the disk that manipulate the data in the database.) Since it doesn't work anyway, you have nothing to lose by trying to reinstall the files before you give up and start over.
I do suggest you back up your database first, even though changing the files won't affect the database.
Since your site's not working you will need to use phpMyAdmin to back up.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_DatabaseIf reinstalling the files doesn't improve things, you will need to start over.
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