Deactivate the theme – by changing the name on the theme’s folder:
wp-content
themes
organic_seed.HOLD
Yes, via FTP is the way to do that.
Thanks, but I need you to be more specific (it’s clear I’m not having the best luck with my first site). Where is the theme’s folder? On the FTP site I presume. And do I add “.HOLD” after the code you shared?
I presume I will still need to do something to overwrite or correct the functions.php. Thanks for the help.
Yes, use FTP to access the files on the server (ask your hosts if you’re not sure how to do that). Then use the file structure I posted above to find your theme folder and change the name on the folder – adding .HOLD is an easy way to change it. That will deactivate the theme and WP will automatically default to twentythirteen – so you can login again.
What were you doing when this error happened? Unless you have a backup copy of that file or know what got messed up, it’s unlikely we can help you fix it as we don’t have access to commercial themes.
The themes folder is under ‘/wp-content/themes/’.
If you wrote this theme, functions.php should be in the Organic Seed folder in there. Else you’ll need to replace the functions.php file from the original source (the theme when you first downloaded it).
I was working with excerpts and had just “discovered” the more function. When I used it to shorten a post excerpt that appears on the front page, the … disappeared. I thought that looked really lame, looked for a fix on the support forum and came up with a few lines of code that I pasted into the functions.php at the very bottom (after checking to find out where the code was supposed to be pasted in and finding that “it didn’t matter”). I can easily delete that code from the bottom of the functions.php if I can access it, but it sounds like I’ll need to reinstall the seed functions.php (when I can get it from our IT).
You could always just download the file and edit it in notepad, then re-upload.
That sounds straight forward. As soon as I can access the FTP site, I’ll do that and post my outcome.
