Are you using a child theme or did you hack the original template?
Hi there!
It’s the original template I think – Photo Workshop by Graph Paper Press. I just customized that…
For the future use child themes that way your customisation is kept in a separate folder so you can safely update the template. See here for documentation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
The only way to get the code back is from a backup. The css will be in the folder: /wp-content/themes/your template
Hope that helps
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Hi,
WordPress uses themes, as you know, and it also uses what are called Child Themes for customizations to the existing theme. A lot of times a theme may need to be updated – for security reasons, to fix bugs, or other reasons. When that happens, any customizations in the theme itself will be lost. Customizations in a child theme will not be. WordPress recommends that all customizations be made in a child theme (http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
WordPress can update itself now (eg http://wordpress.org/news/2013/10/basie/) although it sounds like maybe this was a theme update, not a WordPress update per se…. whether or not GPP can update itself… that’s a theme developer specific question. I’m not aware of automatically updating themes, but it doesn’t strike me as impossible to do it.
When was your latest backup? What customizations have you lost? Does Amazon have any backups of your site, snapshots on S3, anything like that?
Automatic background updates (for minor and security fixes) were introduced in WordPress 3.7.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Automatic_Background_Updates
Automatic plugin and theme updates are disabled by default. It is possible your theme added the code to also include automatic updates for your theme. Contact the theme developer or vendor if this is the case.
Ask your host if they make backups of your site.
