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I managed to get formatting back by reinstalling WP, then replacing all files except wp-content from a downloaded version (original install was a 1-click)and keeping formatting in a parent theme.

I don;t know if there is an easy way to make a child theme and change the CSS for the child theme only without redoing all the changes individually…

CSS I used before is below but I have removed it for now.

[Excessive CSS (ie a complete them stylesheet) moderated.]

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.

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

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)

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

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

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.

I wasn’t comfortable editing the php file. I did an export, reinstalled wordpress and then imported. Theme was totally screwed up (which is another reason for reinstall aside from multisite issue).

I deleted theme files from wp-content directory and left just the 2014 theme, but still no formatting!

Is there anything in the imported file that can have caused this? I don’t want to lose the pages I created if avoidable…..

https://www.makingmaid.co.uk/

Thanks I’ll look into that tonight

Thanks

Thank you I will contact my host.

I did try to change the attributes to 777 using filezilla following advise elsewhere but has had little impact except to stop the update getting past the ‘unpacking files’ command.

If I do it manually do I need to back up all the content as well as I have a theme I have changed the CSS for?