Title: Delete and start again
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Delete and start again

 *  [oaktreehouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oaktreehouse/)
 * (@oaktreehouse)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-and-start-again/)
 * I just signed up to wordpress.org having previously had a blog in wordpress.com.
   Well to cut a long story short I fiddled with some code and now i get a Syntax
   error and cannot login to the site to edit anything, I can’t even get to the 
   code to correct it. As pretty much all I did was import the old .com site and
   add a couple of widgets. So for me the easiest thing would be to start again.
   Delete the broken stuff and import the old .com site again. A 2 min job if only
   I knew how to get into and then delete the old site or just be able to import
   and override the broken stuff – Any help.

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 *  [Digital Raindrops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeptris/)
 * (@adeptris)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-and-start-again/#post-1740909)
 * **OPTIONS**
    If you are with a hosting Company, ask if you have ftp, or file 
   manager in the hosting control panel, just rename the ‘wp-content/**plugins**‘
   folder and create a new empty one, then try to login.
 * If it is the theme that is causing the error then rename the active themes folder(**
   not wp-content/themes**) to re-instate the default theme.
 * If you know which file you changed, use ftp or file manager to overwrite or edit
   the file, back to how it was.
 * Once you are back in then use a local environment for testing, use a product 
   like WAMP to create your local environment, so you can deal with errors before
   uploading.
 * HTH
 * David

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Digital Raindrops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeptris/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-and-start-again/#post-1740909)
 * Status: not resolved

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