Title: Reinstall CSS Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Reinstall CSS * [jennyjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennyjohns/) * (@jennyjohns) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/) * I am a former user of wp and my website was set up by a webmaster. It was removed for awhile, but I have the archive css. I just don’t know how to load it back up. Can anyone help me with that? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191185) * CSS? Or CSV? * CSS won’t help you. That is just stylesheet rules… decoration. If you meant CSV, maybe this: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#CSV_Files](http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#CSV_Files) * Thread Starter [jennyjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennyjohns/) * (@jennyjohns) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191287) * No I mean CSS. Anyone else know? * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191293) * What does your export file look like? Paste about twenty lines to the [pastebin](http://pastebin.com/), please. * Thread Starter [jennyjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennyjohns/) * (@jennyjohns) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191304) * I’m not able to do that because I can’t open the file. * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191336) * Try opening it in a text editor– notepad, textedit. Make a copy to be safe but you shouldn’t mess anything up if you don’t re-save the file. * To the best of my knowledge– admittedly li8mited–, there is no such thing as a css archive, so to help you I have to figure out what kind of file you have, and what software made the file. If you can show me the top of the file I can probably figure that out, even if it is a binary file like a zip or gz archive( though a hex dump is better in that case). * Thread Starter [jennyjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennyjohns/) * (@jennyjohns) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191349) * Thanks. Here is a bunch of the start of it.I can figure out how to load all the other text and pictures but i need the theme and stylesheet to make it all look right. It is only an archive on my computer of the original css. * #logo h1 a { height:177px; width:949px; } #tagline { display: none;} .fullspan{ width:949px;} .grid_6 { margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;} #header { height: 177px; } #content { background-color:#FFFDCA; } #footer { background:url(“[http://picturethepotential.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1-FOOTER.png”](http://picturethepotential.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1-FOOTER.png”);) repeat-x scroll left top #49190F; height:131px;} #footer .credit { display:none;}# footer .powered { display:none; * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191352) * That is an ordinary stylesheet. It is the css, not an archive of it. That should be inside your theme. I don’t know why it was pulled out and saved by itself. * Thread Starter [jennyjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennyjohns/) * (@jennyjohns) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191355) * Yes I know it is MY archive of my stylesheet. The theme was modified somewhat, I can’t figure out which theme she used, and I need to upload it if possible. Do I have to have the theme itself to upload it to or is the theme embedded in the stylesheet? I have this set of backed up material that I was supposed to be able to just upload again if needed. I don’t know how to do that. My understanding is that I should be able to just upload the content in my folder and have my website back. * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191361) * Ok, yes, you will need to have the theme itself for that stylesheet to do you any good. The stylesheet is part of the theme, not the other way around, and it is actually a rather small, but very important, part. There should be at least a few other files in the theme which end in ‘.php’. * > My understanding is that I should be able to just upload the content in my > folder and have my website back. * Well, that is not really accurate. I don’t really know how much you already have set up so assuming you are starting from nothing, you need to upload WordPress, your theme, and any plugins you need. I hope that the ‘backed up material” you mention contains at least the theme, but if you are lucky it contains all of the above. You will then have to create a MySQL database (if one wasn’t created for you by your host) and then import your site’s content. I hope that there is a .sql file in your “backed up material” or some other kind of export file. That would be where all your posts and other content is. * Try to describe what is in your “backed up material”– just a list of the file names should be sufficient. * Thread Starter [jennyjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennyjohns/) * (@jennyjohns) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191363) * There is a folder of wp content which has the html docs of my pages, html of my index (which seems to be all my pages in a row) and the css file, then another folder labeled MACOXS which seems to have the same files in it except they are written as - . name of the page * I can’t open these to see what they are. Maybe these are theme pages – I don’t know. * Thread Starter [jennyjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennyjohns/) * (@jennyjohns) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191365) * Also no php files that I can find * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191372) * You can ignore the MACOS folder. That is something used internally by Apple’s operating system. * Inside the wp-content folder should be another folder named similar to your theme, and inside that should be .php files. Are you telling me that everything in there is .html? If that is the case, whoever extracted this for you extracted a static version of your site. You probably could upload everything in that wp-contents folder to a server and have a site but you won’t have access to the WordPress backend to edit things, add posts, plugins, etc. * Thread Starter [jennyjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennyjohns/) * (@jennyjohns) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191382) * Yes everything but the css is html so you are probably right. Let’s go at this from another direction. Ignore the original theme and use wp 2011 theme. Can I insert or upload or something the css I have into the new theme? * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191383) * > Can I insert or upload or something the css I have into the new theme? * You probably wouldn’t have much success. The css rules in the stylesheet target particular tags, ids, and classes in the theme. They two are tightly connected. Chances are the stylesheet would just make a mess if you try to use for a theme it wasn’t built for. It won’t cause any actual damage, it will just look bad. * If you decide to pick a theme and use WordPress, your site won’t have any content. You will have to create all of the posts and pages all over again. * Thread Starter [jennyjohns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennyjohns/) * (@jennyjohns) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-css/#post-2191384) * Well that sucks. I guess I’ll just have to start from scratch. At least I have copies of all the content. Thanks so much for all your help. I appreciate you hanging in with me. 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