Comments on: How to manually change your WordPress theme

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:31:02 +0000

Yet again… saved me time too … Fiddling around and broke my site… thanks for posting this.

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Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:17:25 +0000

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By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:44:33 +0000

This just really saved me alot of headaches! Was just getting to the panic point before i come across this. Cheers!

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:00:07 +0000

It’s much easier to rename your working template to the name of the broken template and change it later back.

By: Dainis

Dainis — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:48:14 +0000

you can also go into phpmyadmin then browse the wp_options table and change the template and stylesheet variables to a functioning template like twentyten.

By: dean

dean — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:33:30 +0000

Thanks, I used the first tip through SQL and worked great. HYBRID-NEWS killed my site I was getting the fatal error. All good now

By: Tobie Nortje

Tobie Nortje — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:24:12 +0000

HI, You do not understand how you saved my life here! I only have some Putty and Linux experience…. to the readers don’t forget to type the “;” after the commend to complete it!!!!! JAAAAAY

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:50:33 +0000

Thanks! Saved my bacon, just as the panic was setting in. Cosmic Buddy theme (or Copernicus) hosed my site.

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:39:35 +0000

Nice tip.
I just changed the value manually in mysql and it worked.

By: Deepesh Joseph

Deepesh Joseph — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:44:42 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I actually found an easier way -

update wp_options set option_value =’classic’ where option_value = ‘philna2′

In my case, I was having php error with philna2 theme, and I had to replace it with classic. THe above sql will update all occurances of philna2 theme and it worked fine for me.

Thanks,
Deepesh