Well if you know how to get to phpMyAdmin you can go to wp_options and then find template and stylesheet and edit those back to your old one.
The name has to match the folder name under /themes/ exactly
If you have theme errors preventing you from logging in, then use your FTP access to delete or move the theme’s directory from wp-content/themes and it’ll reset everything to default.
FTP to the folder for the wayward theme and rename it – that will disable it and get you back to the default Theme so you can log-in and visitors can view your site without the errors.
wp-content >> themes >> your wayward theme
Ya listen to their answers and not mine. You can do it my way but its probably over complicated. 🙂
Hi all — well, I’ve done all of the above (actually did what wpbum suggested first) — and I’ve succeeded in changing the theme to default., BUT — those warning messages are still there and I still cannot log in!
http://www.wordbenders.com/blog
getting uglier by the minute
Rename your easy-contact plugin folder to something else. That should fix the bottom 2 errors. Might fix them all.
wooo hooo
That worked wpbum! That is — it got rid of most of the error messages. There’s one still there — what do you think would remove that?
oh and when I try to log in now I get all this stuff:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wp_widget() in /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 76
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/widgets.php:76) in /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-login.php on line 302
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/widgets.php:76) in /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-login.php on line 314
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/widgets.php:76) in /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 674
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/widgets.php:76) in /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 675
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/widgets.php:76) in /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 676
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/widgets.php:76) in /homepages/12/d310676545/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868
!Never tried this!
Think you have a widget active that is causing the issues. You need to deactivate it and I dont know how.
But you can try going in phpmyadmin again and wp_options
Sort by option name so its easy to find the widgets.
Replace the option values with
a:0:{}
Like I said, not sure if this works, but it sounds good in theory. 🙂
hmmmm yeah… does sound good in theory. I’m not very skilled at poking around in the database innards — so I will have to think about this a bit.
I wonder if — what if I created a new database, did a fresh install of WordPress — is there any way to salvage the posts from the old database and move that content over to the new one?
Think you can also put
update_option( 'sidebars_widgets', NULL );
into a theme file like functions.php to clear out your widgets.
hmmm upon further investigation the link above refers to EXACTLY my problem. I’m going to give that a try.
Could be – cannot modify header information can appear for a number of reasons.
