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1. andreakalli
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   has anyone ever experienced their WordPress theme automatically changing back to the default theme? This has happened to me every couple of days for a few weeks now. I'm using the Semiologic free theme and have it on two of my WordPress sites. One stays just fine, but the other one does not. It started happening when I installed the new theme. I can easily go into the presentation settings and change it back and it has all my customizations, but I'm stumped as to why this happens.

   I love the theme, but it's driving me crazy!

   Any ideas?

   Andrea Kalli

2. bryonyjean
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I've had this happen to me; although it looked correct from the admin side, the site seemed to revert to the default template.

   I have two suggestions for you (though I'm a beginner myself!)

   Did you copy files from your first set up to make the other? If you did and you included your personalised configure files perhaps the 2nd site is getting confused as to what the content should be (hope this makes sense - I did this and it foxed me for a couple of hours! Mind you, my database was clearly confused too...)

   Also, have you tried deleting your temporary internet files? Perhaps your computer is showing old stored content?

3. Loezju
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Same problem here; anyone the right solution to solve this?

4. andreakalli
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I think I'm going to completely uninstall the semiologic theme from my second blog and do a fresh install with new files. I'll let you know.

   Thanks!
   Andrea

5. monalisa
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   this happened to me too, not sure what's wrong but i have a feeling it has to do with mysql or something.

6. andreakalli
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Well, I finally tested some things and have fixed the issue. Now, even though the issue started when I tried applying the semiologic theme to my second blog, the issue carried over to other themes that I applied. I would try out another theme, then a few days later it was back to the default WordPress theme. I tried deactivating my plugins to see if there was a conflict happening and that didn't seem to make a difference. That made me think there was something wrong with my WordPress pages.

   What I ended up doing was upgrading to the latest version of WordPress, 2.3.1. I haven't had this problem since. It's been about 2 weeks now. I was dreading the upgrade because I didn't know what would be affected. The very first time I upgraded WordPress I remember losing some customizations. That didn't happen this time and it was very smooth.

   Although I guess the real test would be to set up this blog with the semiologic theme. I haven't applied that them yet because in all the testing, I found another theme that I liked and am using that.

   Andrea

7. pitzemanne
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   it happend to me to. First I tried some other themes and I had the same miracle. My hack: I renamed the folders. So the theme called "Bleibt alles anders" is now in the theme folder named "default".

8. JennGrover
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have had the same problem with the last 2 version of WordPress and it happens with different themes. I wonder if it is one of the pluggins?

9. Icyshadowz
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   so it looks like we really don't have an answer to this issue because mine is doing the same thing I'm using a different template then what u stated sounds like a bug in word press or a setting that we are all missing it would be nice to have some one from word press answer what could be going on here because i have the latest word press and a template that goes along with it and every time it does this i have to do a crazy log in because i removed the default template Please help asap

10. Chris_K
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    *hands Icyshadowz a period (.) key*

    Fortunately, searching the forums will turn up more threads. For instance, in many threads you'll find that WordPress (that's spelled as one word, btw) will switch to the Default theme when it detects missing files or errors with your current theme.

    In many cases, you'll find more information in your web server's error logs.

11. blueyez
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    rename your theme into: default
    rename default theme in what ever you want :P
    try fix it

12. n33x
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    same thing is happening to me. I updated and it did not fix the poroblem for me either.I am new to wordpress but not coding in general.

    I would be very interested to know if there is a way to escalate this issue. I certainly do not want to "live with it".

    I am going to try and rename the folders and see if that works.

13. iridiax
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I experienced this same problem (WordPress randomly reverting to the default theme), and I finally figured out what was causing it in my case. I had accidently deleted the WordPress theme name comment in my style.css. I restored it from a backup copy, and the problem went away. I now make sure that this comment is in my default stylesheet.

14. missadventures
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Hi there,

    I know this topic says resolved but I'm not sure what it means by the "theme name comment in my style.css."

    I've written several posts asking about the theme reverting to default and have never found any real solutions. If someone can explain iridax's solution to me, I'd like to try that.

    Thanks!
    M

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