Do I need to uninstall/reinstall WordPress?

  • cyberman45

    (@cyberman45)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    I’m a noobie. I did a Bitnami localhost install of WordPress some months ago.. activated the twenty twelve theme… and then started experimenting with making changes to the theme… THEN realized I should have created a “child theme” before I started messing around.

    I tried deleting and reinstalling the 2012 parent theme but it kept hanging on to some of the changes i had made.

    Then i got sidetracked for quite awhile and am just now trying to get back up to speed on learning WordPress.

    My question… is there a way to massage my install back to the “factory defaults” so to speak… or would it be better to blow it all up and start from square one with a totally new install? And if I were to do that… would I be able to use my current user name and password… or will I get the “that user name already in use” problem?

    thanks for any advice

    p.s. not sure right now which version of WordPress I have… I haven’t update to the latest version.

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  • respectyoda

    (@respectyoda)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    You can abandon the 2012 parent theme and instead use the 2014 theme. You can find out which version of WordPress you have if you go to the Dashboard.

    Thread Starter cyberman45

    (@cyberman45)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for the direction. One thing I forgot to mention is that during my hiatus from learning WordPress… I migrated my PC from Win XP to Win7. My install of WP seems to have survived that transition… but who knows if “everything” is still there and functioning the way it should be.
    If anyone running WP after a migration to Win 7 would like to chime in I’d be interested to know if you have hit any snags??

    When I went into the Dashboard it was advising me to update the install to latest version but didn’t say which version I have now. Oh well I’ll do as you suggested and see what happens.

    Thanks again respectyoda.

    respectyoda

    (@respectyoda)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    It doesn’t really matter which version of Windows you have as that doesn’t affect how WordPress sites are displayed. The only thing that can affect how they are displayed is the type and version of browser.

    You are welcome!

    RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    You can find the current version by running “readme.html”

    As for your mangled theme, you could make it a child.
    Rename your current theme
    Install a clean set of 2012 theme.
    Make your theme into a child theme, instructions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
    You can delete any files which are identical between 2012 and child.
    You will have to change the names of some functions in “functions.php”
    Maybe you want to remove duplicates between your parent and child css statements, this would be optional.

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