All formatting lost

  • I have lost all formatting on my website (www.makingmaid.co.uk). It started when I tried to create a child theme. I had made significant changes to the parent theme CSS and realised I needed a child theme to protect against future updates. created the child theme and uploaded the altered css as the child theme css but with correct lines at the top. It didn’t work and nothing changed.

    I decided to uninstall wordpress and reinstall (I had another issue whereby it had done a multisite install too). I exported the files using WP. Then on reinstall I imported.

    Same issue – no formatting!!!!!

    Help please!

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  • Perhaps you need to review child themes?

    Thread Starter JoolzJ

    (@joolzj)

    I can’t do anything at all until I work out what’s wrong with the formatting anyway since it no longer has a child theme or any!

    I realise I’ll need to do it all from scratch and not do a shortcut like putting whole CSS in but can’t even get site working at the mo ??

    worried I need to recreate all the pages now too.

    What theme are you using? Where did you download it from?

    Thread Starter JoolzJ

    (@joolzj)

    originally it was fiore but then I deleted everything except 2014, still had the issue. I have now reinstalled Fiore but nothing has changed.

    I can only conclude it is some other aspect of the site affecting it and I may need to reinstall again and copy page text rather than import

    Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    Thread Starter JoolzJ

    (@joolzj)

    both are in the wordpress list and i did it from within the dashboard

    Thread Starter JoolzJ

    (@joolzj)

    There are no plugins as it is now a new install. I could try to download the files and re upload. It was a one click install (so may be worth just doing that and uploading content individually)

    A fresh upload of core files would be a good idea. 1-click installs tend to have a higher “screw-up” rate compared to manual installs.

    Thread Starter JoolzJ

    (@joolzj)

    interesting to know. I’ll find the files and try that ??

    Thread Starter JoolzJ

    (@joolzj)

    I’ve managed to restore the site and customisation but on the main theme CSS (as I did originally). So assume I will still need to create a child theme with it’s customised CSS to protect it from future theme updates.

    Thanks for your help.

    So assume I will still need to create a child theme with it’s customised CSS to protect it from future theme updates.

    That’s correct, yes.

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