Unable to delete standard themes from WP dashboard

  • Resolved Tami

    (@kingfisher22)


    1 year, 3 months ago

    We have our custom theme and a back up theme installed.

    The WP health suggestion recogizes the active themes as only 2 (the custom and back up) and suggests to delete 3 unused themes

    The unused themes; Twenty-one, Twenty-two and Twenty-three are all visible in the Themes tab, all have the only choice of activate.

    There aren’t three dots, or ellipsis, to delete.

    If I click on Theme Details, there insn’t any link or button to click other than activate.

    How can I delete these themes?

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  • lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    you can also delete a specific theme’s directory using your webhosting’s file manager or via ftp tool like filezilla.

    Thread Starter Tami

    (@kingfisher22)

    Our site isn’t hosted.

    How would I use the ftp tool to delete the themes?

    There isn’t a delete button on the bottom-right side?

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    • This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by ren.
    lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    Our site isn’t hosted.

    -if your site is “hosted” on WordPress.com service, please use this link for support https://wordpress.com/support

    -if your site is set up as a self-hosted site and using WordPress software, then there is a webhosting account that is holding all of your files (i.e. themes, plugins, etc). Contact your webhosting account vendor for assistance finding the file manager. If you are not sure who is the webhost – you could try a look up using this tool: https://digital.com/who-is-hosting-this/

    Thread Starter Tami

    (@kingfisher22)

    @renyot No. There is only an activate button.

    @contentiskey We self-host on AWS.

    lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    glad to hear you were able to determine where your files and folders are located. directories for each theme are located in the WP-Content directory.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Use SSH to access your site. “cd” to the directory in which WP is installed, then “wp-content/themes”. You can then use “sudo rm -fr dir1 dir2 dir3” etc to remove the unwanted themes.

    MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!

    Thread Starter Tami

    (@kingfisher22)

    @sterndata I’ll have my developer follow these instructions. Thanks.

    Thread Starter Tami

    (@kingfisher22)

    Thanks for the suggestions.

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