Title: Change theme manually
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Change theme manually

 *  [ilcapitanova](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilcapitanova/)
 * (@ilcapitanova)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-theme-manually/)
 * Hello
    I am running an old version of WordPress (2.5) and recently bought a theme
   I wanted to use. I knew I had to upgrade the wordpress to 2.9.2 before doing 
   it, but I accidently chose the new theme when I thought I was going to edit it
   after having logged on. Now I keep getting this error and can’t do anything: 
   Fatal error: Class bm_widget_popularposts: Cannot inherit from undefined class
   wp_widget in /wp-content/themes/mimbopro/scripts/bm_widgetClasses.php on line
   5
 * Is there any way manually I can change the theme back to the previous by editing
   any files on my server?

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 *  [Shane G.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g-1/)
 * (@shane-g-1)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-theme-manually/#post-1500697)
 * Hi,
 * You can either remove the problamatic theme from wordpress theme folder by FTP
   to your blog or change theme directly from the database…
 * – Open phpMyAdmin, go to your wp database. Open wp_options table. Search for 
   three option_name – template, stylesheet, and current_theme.
 * See the option_value fields from the search result. The option_value will be 
   your theme name. Change option_value of the search result to ‘classic’ OR ‘default’.
   Classic and default are the default wordpress themes present at the time of wp
   installation.
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  [Prasad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pprasad26184/)
 * (@pprasad26184)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-theme-manually/#post-1501138)
 * Thanks For Ur Help… Buddy…

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 * Last reply from: [Prasad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pprasad26184/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-theme-manually/#post-1501138)
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