Can I return to the default set up of my theme?

  • Resolved janyuill

    (@janyuill)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    I have messed up the sidebar (www.janyuill.com) somehow. It shows below the postings.

    Is there someway to go back to the original set up of the theme and begin again?

    Jan

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  • Sure. Just replace your current updated theme’s files with the original ones.

    You DID save your extracted WP folder, didn’t you? So just FTP the original sidebar.php file to overwrite the one you screwed up.

    This is why I always advise newbies to keep backup copies of critical files on their site.

    Just go into your original, extracted WP version folder and rename them to something like (in this case) “o_sidebar.php” and ftp to your folder. If anything gets screwed, use ftp to again access the folder, highlight the backup file and click “rename”. It will say “a file of that name already exists – do you want to overwrite?” You answer YES – original is restored.

    Thread Starter janyuill

    (@janyuill)

    Saurus,

    Backing up is another challenge that just doesn’t seem to work for me. (Another post for later.)

    I have reloaded the files several times. I have uploaded new themes and used them.

    Each and every time, the sidebar appears below the postings.

    How can that be? The theme itself doesn’t seem to be the problem.

    Jan

    Thread Starter janyuill

    (@janyuill)

    Problem solved by Heather from support!!!

    https://support.wordpress.com/themes/layout-issues/#sidebar

    Thank you again, Heather.

    Jan

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