Oops. Broke my site-front and back

  • Resolved Aaron

    (@amackley)


    13 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve used WordPress, back up database, move sites all the time, but I did something thats got me stumped.

    On one of my client sites, they had 30+ themes installed. They were trying to get different look and feel. They asked me to get rid of many of the themes.

    I started deleting themes in the wp-admin, but decided that since I could add themes by dropping them into wp-content/themes, I should be able to remove them. (YES, I should have made a full backup, but I didn’t!!!) So, using FTP, I removed about 25 theme directories. Now the website is broken. The website is http://www.estherspa.com. I get this error:
    The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.estherspa.com/

    In an attempt to fix, I have restored the default twentyten theme. I re-loaded the files from wordpress and then restored my wp-config.php.

    I haven’t done anything with the original database.

    Anyone have an idea what to do to fix this problem?

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  • João Sardinha

    (@johnsardine)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    try deleting all templates, leaving only twentyten, to see if wordpress selects twentyten as default

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Clear your browser cache and try it again. The lifestyle theme seems to be loading okay for me when I visit the site, and /wp-admin gets me a login dialog.

    Thread Starter Aaron

    (@amackley)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    John. Thanks for the idea. I did what you suggested, but it didn’t work. But your comments did remind me that I am using a Genesis child-theme. Genesis framework requires both the Genesis main theme plus the child theme. I had deleted the genesis theme. I re-installed that and the child-them and it came back.

    Thanks for your insights.

    Thread Starter Aaron

    (@amackley)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Clayton. I think you got there just after I got it fixed.

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Looks good!

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