Title: Default theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Default theme

 *  Resolved [jwack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwack/)
 * (@jwack)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-5/)
 * I had a bunch of themes installed on my MU site, when I switch to 3.0 I deleted
   all the themes and plan to use the new 3.0 default theme for all new blogs created.
 * I changed the theme folder name to “default” but when a new blog is created it
   gets a white screen and no theme is selected for it.
 * I thought changing the theme folder name to default sets it to always use that
   when a new blog is created?

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 *  Thread Starter [jwack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwack/)
 * (@jwack)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-5/#post-1588279)
 * If I go into a newly created blog under appearance > themes it says…
    Current
   Theme by
 * All of this theme’s files are located in .
 * Not sure why its not activating my default theme???
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-5/#post-1588281)
 * In the new 3.0 world, the default theme is twentyten. Try naming it back?
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-5/#post-1588285)
 * > I changed the theme folder name to “default”
 * Yeah, don’t do that. In wordpress 3.0, it does not look for a theme folder called“
   default”. it looks for twentyTen.
 *  Thread Starter [jwack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwack/)
 * (@jwack)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-5/#post-1588309)
 * Got it thanks guys!
 * FYI, had to rename the folder twentyten, not twentyTen.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-5/#post-1588327)
 * Opps, sorry. 🙂 My typos arelegendary.
 * Also! you can declare a different default theme via a define in the config file.
 * `define('WP_DEFAULT_THEME', 'themefoldername');`
 * [http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/change-the-default-theme-for-sites-without-a-plugin/](http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/change-the-default-theme-for-sites-without-a-plugin/)
 *  [quinz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinz/)
 * (@quinz)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-5/#post-1588338)
 * Thanks Andrea_r, this was very useful line 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [quinz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinz/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-5/#post-1588338)
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