Title: Starting Over??????
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Starting Over??????

 *  [Bob Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bob-thomas/)
 * (@bob-thomas)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starting-over-7/)
 * I am trying to figure out how to start over in the simplest way possible. Without
   knowing that I shouldn’t mess with theme revisions without creating a “child”
   theme I made changes in “Ships Ahoy” then backed out of it and then activated“
   Twenty Eleven” default and made additional changes there. I do not have access
   to all of the customizations which are part of 20/11 and I am assuming they got
   wiped out by going from “Ships Ahoy” to the default theme. Now I’m digging so
   deep into methods of backing up that I can’t deal with the complications. I’d
   just like to figure out how to start all over again. I don’t mind recreating 
   everything, it would just be easier for me to understand if I could start from
   scratch now that I understand more about the process. I loaded WP through my 
   server, do I need to remove everything from the server and reinstall WP and new
   username and password? Or is there a way to just erase all the themes and reload
   just twenty eleven?
 * Thanks again.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starting-over-7/#post-2196755)
 * You can delete any themes that you do not want with the exception of the Twenty
   Eleven theme. To remove all of your changes to this theme, just upload a [fresh copy of the theme](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyeleven)
   by FTP to wp-content/themes.
 *  [WebTechGlobal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webtechglobal/)
 * (@webtechglobal)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starting-over-7/#post-2196790)
 * Bob, first thing to be clear about is what exactly your not happy with.
 * Is it data (settings, posts, categories etc)?
 * Or is it just the visuals, your theme?
 * Data is stored in MySQL database, your best deleting the database using your 
   hosting control panel, but only do so if there are simply too many changes in
   the admin side of your blog for you to go correcting. You want a fresh blog so
   you can learn by seeing how WP is on installation, then that is part of it. Main
   step is just deleting all the blog files, keep in mind anything else that may
   be installed on your hosting/server and do not delete the wrong things.
 * If you have nothing else installed then you would normally end up with an empty
   public_html directory.
 * Then upload a newly downloaded copy of WordPress files. When you visit your site
   after upload, it should start the installation procedure.
 * Your hosting could also help you with this. Things like this, I do for my customers
   on my hosting. Most hosting allows installation of WordPress from the control
   panel so check that before uploading the WordPress files through FTP.
 * You just stick with esmi instructions if you simply want to reset the theme.
 *  Thread Starter [Bob Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bob-thomas/)
 * (@bob-thomas)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starting-over-7/#post-2196906)
 * Thanks.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Bob Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bob-thomas/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starting-over-7/#post-2196906)
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