WordPress Themes Keep Changing Back to Default
Does your WordPress theme keep changing back to the boring default theme?
Over on my Podcasting Underground I’m dealing with this ongoing frustration and I just learned other bloggers are faced with it as well. I go back into my WordPress admin and change back to my chosen theme, but then sometimes a soon as one day later it reverts to the default.
For the last several weeks I assumed it was a problem with my host (that I’m in the middle of changing now anyway), but now I’ve had confirmation of two others on two different hosts that are having the same problem.
I’m planning to look into this some more. Has anyone else experienced this? Anyone have a solution? Perhaps WordPress 2.5 will solve it.
March 9th, 2008 20:06
Hi Jason,
I had this problem too on two of my sites. Actually I found a solution :-)
In my case, I use the theme Gemini plus which uses several designs you can change in a setup window within WP. I wrote all those options down and opened functions.php in my theme’s directory (with FTP). There is a section to edit the default theme template and I edited it the way that it uses the values that I want. So it still may happen that the theme is reset but I won’t notice it anymore :-)
March 10th, 2008 06:11
Hi Melanie - this sounds interesting, I have the same problem, and like Jason I am on the lookout for fixes.
I am not sure I quite know how you have done, and if I will be able to do the same, but I
March 10th, 2008 14:28
@Melanie,
That’s a clever idea. I’m glad it worked for you.
I think what I’m going to try is updating to WordPress 2.5 (out this week) and see of that fixes it.
@Karin,
It sounds like what Melanie did is make the Default theme look like the theme she wanted.
You could also try copying all your theme files (from the theme you really want to use) into the default folder and change the line that names it to make the name Default.
That way when it changes back to “Default” it really stays with the theme that you want.
March 22nd, 2008 13:41
@jason and @melanie What a clever idea - never thought of that. :-)
April 6th, 2008 12:25
I did have this problem on one of my blog sites, then I upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress (the version before the new one that just came out) and that seemed to stop the issue. I thought I was in the clear. Now the same thing happens to Podpress that’s in the same blog. Periodically the settings will go back to default, although it doesn’t happen as often as the Wordpress thing. Last week I decided to upgrade both Wordpress and Podpress to the newest versions. Let’s see if that helps.
April 7th, 2008 00:48
@Andrea,
I’ve seen this same behavior with PodPress. In fact, I’ve seen this happen with the FeedBurner plugin as well where the FeedBurner feed address gets cleared out and it stops forwarding. It’s all very disconcerting. I’m watching v2.5 as well to see if this clears things up.
April 9th, 2008 11:04
By any chance are any of you editing using Coda, on OSX? I have that problem when i save a file in Coda and refresh the browser.
April 18th, 2008 12:02
Hello all:
I?m having the same problem… and I have already tried moving folders, renaming… but afeter a feww minutes it changes by itself to the default theme :(
I have had a look at the functions.php of my theme but it’s strange cause it makes references all the time to kubricks’theme (Wp default) so I don’t know what to do .
I”m using 2.5 and this is the website (if you are lucky you’ll be able to see it with a different theme tnah default :P )
http://www.tuschapas.co.nr
thanks a lot
April 26th, 2008 00:24
I have not had that problem. However I have set up a feedburner email subscription on my site and lately it has been sending the past 10 or 15 posts in an email instead of just the one I posted. Anybody know why that would be?