Messed up default WP template.

  • Help! I just installed WP and I know nothing about it. So, don’t ask me why my first inclination was to change the template. Anyhoo, I went to Alexking and found a nice simple little template. I downloaded it and figured it was like an other template. So I just copied and pasted. Viola! Only it didn’t work. Now, I don’t have the default template, nor do I know where to find it or how to fix my mistake. Can anybody help? I promise I won’t touch it until I know what I’m doing. Pinky swear.

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  • If you still have the wordpress zip file, simply unzip index.php and wp-layout.css into your wordpress installation folder again. If you don’t still have the zip, download it from the download section.

    Thread Starter missychele

    (@missychele)

    Oh gosh, I’m way over my head with this. I’m not exactly sure what you are trying to explain to me. What I did was delete the index.php file and pasted the code of another template (someway ,somehow I missed a few steps) and all i got was a bunch of garbled code when I viewed my site. I don’t know where wp-layout.css is. And to the other poster…Dreamhost has a one click install for WP. So as for the zip. I don’t have it. Could I just manually download WP take the code from it?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Log onto your site via FTP (with an FTP app). You will find your WordPress files in the directory: yourdomain.com/blog/ Here you can upload, download, and delete files. You can find your FTP login information in your control panel.

    Thread Starter missychele

    (@missychele)

    I couldn’t download WP from this site for some reason or other, so I decided to just delete the whole thing and start over.

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