No Theme Files for my Site in Database

  • Resolved avisualglitch

    (@avisualglitch)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    I’m not sure if the title is 100% correct in what I’m experiencing, but it does help explain somewhat of what is going on.
    I installed xaamp on the 1st of Jan, and then an extracted wordpress inside of the htdocs folder. I created a database on phpMyAdmin as well. Since the 3rd, I’ve been actively designing a website to replace my current pre-built, Big Cartel hosted website. I made the mistake of not making a child theme and now everything is crumbling around me.

    I can not find my wordpress files for the theme I’m using (Business Elite), nor can I find any php, css, or anything else pertaining to it. I have checked wp-content/themes as well as my phpMyAdmin database. I am running this locally, and it is not hosted anywhere besides my computer.

    I wasn’t experiencing any issues really, until I discovered what a child theme is and went to try to make one.

    Are my files hidden somewhere? I don’t have to use FTP for localhosting, right? I did save my entire website as a .zip before it all went down hill.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    I can not find my wordpress files for the theme I’m using (Business Elite), nor can I find any php, css, or anything else pertaining to it. I have checked wp-content/themes as well as my phpMyAdmin database.

    – You will not find your theme templates in Database. For they are not stored in the DB.

    – They are stored in the the theme’s folder at:
    wp-content/themes/ YOUR THEME/

    If you don’t find them there, it probably means:
    – it got deleted, check your trash bin
    – or, you have it under different name

    What’s your site’s URL?

    You won’t find the theme files in the database, and you don’t have to use FTP for local hosting.
    Go to your htdocs folder, then wp-content >> themes >> YOUR THEME. You should find your files there.

    Thread Starter avisualglitch

    (@avisualglitch)

    the sites url on my computer is just localhost/wordpress
    and there is no Business Elite theme folder located there. I also do not see it in the garbage bin.

    The only files in htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes are for twentyfifteen, twentysixteen, and twentyseventeen. I checked all of the contents to see if somehow the Business Elite them got saved inside one of those, but it doesn’t appear to be.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by avisualglitch.
    • This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by avisualglitch.

    As far as I’m concerned that is the only place where themes could be. So it must have been deleted.

    You can download your theme again, though.

    Go to the dashboard, and under Appearance go to themes and then add new theme and search for Business elite.

    Thread Starter avisualglitch

    (@avisualglitch)

    Sorry for the late reply, just got back from work. I will try that, the next chance I have.

    Thread Starter avisualglitch

    (@avisualglitch)

    To make matters even worse, I logged out, and was going to log back in. Sort of a last-ditch effort, that maybe something would happen? I’m not too sure. I went to log back in, and the password I set isn’t working anymore, and when I go to reset the “forgotten” password, it says the mail() function is disabled by the host. Normally I would think that I entered a digit differently than the original password, but I actually hand wrote out my password on a piece of paper after I made it, in case I forgot. I’m going to uninstall wordpress and xaamp and start over. I was smart enough to export a .zip containing a copy of my .wp theme and codes (although the original one was never found). I did look through all 20 files in my recycle bin and none of them were for my theme. Thanks for the support though.

    Good luck with your site.

    Thread Starter avisualglitch

    (@avisualglitch)

    Just an update, I did a fresh re-install and let the file locations stay default on the C drive, and everything works great now. The files are in the theme folder. I’m not sure what happened at all last time. I wish I was more experienced in WordPress, so that if it wasn’t an error on my part somewhere I could help the devs debug the issue. But we’re good. Thanks for everyone’s input!

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad to know it ??

    Since you’re using xaamp, one sure way to find your files is to get into the command line + do a find for files in question.

    Something like find ~ | egrep -i “Business.*Elite” will likely find your files.

    Of if xaamp locates files outside your home directory…

    sudo find / | egrep -i “Business.*Elite”

    will definitely find your files + may take a very long time, depending on your disk size.

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