Title: screwed up wordpress by making changes Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # screwed up wordpress by making changes * [shvelmur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shvelmur/) * (@shvelmur) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screwed-up-wordpress-by-making-changes/) * Hi, * I installed wordpress about 3/4 months back, and started playing with it. I seem to have messed up the code in index.php/elsewhere (not able to identify exactly where). I tried installing the flcikr gallery plugin which required some changes in the code files of wordpress main directory. now I am unable to change to some other theme and if I do I simpyl get a blank page. View source gives only this * * if I launch using the /index.php * but I had also redirected the site’s index.php (outside wpress dir) as follows. This works fine and displays the site as exepected, however the links all return just blank pages. * * Can someone tell me what could be the problem?! Should I reinstall wordpress? Btw, I use wpress 1.5.1.3. Also let me know of how I can create an offline copy of my wpress install, so that I can avoid such mishaps in the future (hopefully) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screwed-up-wordpress-by-making-changes/#post-239124) * Can you restore from a backup? If you don’t have your own backup copy (you should), can you ask your hosting provider to restore from a backup (they should be keeping nightly backups)? * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups) * [Class](https://wordpress.org/support/users/class/) * (@class) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screwed-up-wordpress-by-making-changes/#post-239325) * Making backups before editing core files is usually a good idea 🙂 Can’t you just copy the original files back? * Thread Starter [shvelmur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shvelmur/) * (@shvelmur) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screwed-up-wordpress-by-making-changes/#post-239370) * precisely … I only I had backed up.. and I got in touch with my service provider… just that I don’t exactly know, which one of my activities screwed it up… so I can’t really point to a date which would have correct version * What I would like to know is, if I can reinstall WP on top of the existing code? I understand that it would remove all my customisations, but I know which ones I need. * I also installed WP on my local machine, but since I’m on LAN, eveytime I log into my local site, the admin page takes me to the one online. Is there some solution to that issue? * Thanks guys for the inputs that you have already given * [Class](https://wordpress.org/support/users/class/) * (@class) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screwed-up-wordpress-by-making-changes/#post-239372) * There is a backup plugin for WP. Have you tried disabling all your plugins? I think it _should_ be possible to just copy the files from a fresh download, overwriting your files. * Edit your ‘hosts’ file on your local machine. It’s in (win/winnt)/system32/drivers/ etc on windows and in /etc on *nix. You’ll need to use a different hostname for your local machine than the “real” server on the internet so the db won’t be identical but it’s fine for development and testing. * [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc/) * (@marc) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screwed-up-wordpress-by-making-changes/#post-239375) * Here is the best method to install and run your WP blog on a home box. * [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘screwed up wordpress by making changes’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Offline](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/offline/) * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) * 5 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc/) * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screwed-up-wordpress-by-making-changes/#post-239375) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics