Starting Over??????

  • I am trying to figure out how to start over in the simplest way possible. Without knowing that I shouldn’t mess with theme revisions without creating a “child” theme I made changes in “Ships Ahoy” then backed out of it and then activated “Twenty Eleven” default and made additional changes there. I do not have access to all of the customizations which are part of 20/11 and I am assuming they got wiped out by going from “Ships Ahoy” to the default theme. Now I’m digging so deep into methods of backing up that I can’t deal with the complications. I’d just like to figure out how to start all over again. I don’t mind recreating everything, it would just be easier for me to understand if I could start from scratch now that I understand more about the process. I loaded WP through my server, do I need to remove everything from the server and reinstall WP and new username and password? Or is there a way to just erase all the themes and reload just twenty eleven?

    Thanks again.

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  • You can delete any themes that you do not want with the exception of the Twenty Eleven theme. To remove all of your changes to this theme, just upload a fresh copy of the theme by FTP to wp-content/themes.

    Bob, first thing to be clear about is what exactly your not happy with.

    Is it data (settings, posts, categories etc)?

    Or is it just the visuals, your theme?

    Data is stored in MySQL database, your best deleting the database using your hosting control panel, but only do so if there are simply too many changes in the admin side of your blog for you to go correcting. You want a fresh blog so you can learn by seeing how WP is on installation, then that is part of it. Main step is just deleting all the blog files, keep in mind anything else that may be installed on your hosting/server and do not delete the wrong things.

    If you have nothing else installed then you would normally end up with an empty public_html directory.

    Then upload a newly downloaded copy of WordPress files. When you visit your site after upload, it should start the installation procedure.

    Your hosting could also help you with this. Things like this, I do for my customers on my hosting. Most hosting allows installation of WordPress from the control panel so check that before uploading the WordPress files through FTP.

    You just stick with esmi instructions if you simply want to reset the theme.

    Thread Starter Bob Thomas

    (@bob-thomas)

    Thanks.

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