Comments on: How to manually change your Wordpress theme

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