WordPress Reset to Default Theme Randomly

Filed in: Links, WordPress — April 7th, 2007

If your WordPress blog is irregularly reset to Default theme, you should check the plugin installation of WP Cache and/or WP Mobile. Read more at WordPress Support »

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  • http://chrisgarrettmedia.com/ garrett

    Hm, the only time I’ve experienced this is when I’ve been editing the CSS or index.php . These are the 2 files WP themes need to contain to make them functional themes, if for some reason wordpress can’t find the CSS for your chosen theme it will revert to the default theme. WP-cache will stop this happening but I don’t recommend it as it only covers up the problem rather than fixing it.

  • http://chrisgarrettmedia.com garrett

    Hm, the only time I’ve experienced this is when I’ve been editing the CSS or index.php . These are the 2 files WP themes need to contain to make them functional themes, if for some reason wordpress can’t find the CSS for your chosen theme it will revert to the default theme. WP-cache will stop this happening but I don’t recommend it as it only covers up the problem rather than fixing it.

  • LcF

    @garrett: thank you for the explaination. Yeah, I was editing index.php and style.css

  • LcF

    @garrett: thank you for the explaination. Yeah, I was editing index.php and style.css

  • http://www.homebusiness.more2go.com/ Mei Ling

    Liew, I experienced this when I first upgraded my WordPress to 2.1. Being a non-technie myself, drilling down to the problem wasn’t easy. I endured it for 1 week! I had to change the theme manually, everyday without fail. And it stopped – without me doing anything!

    After reading Scott Burket’s blog, I think I’d better start putting in WP-Mobile, as I think I did notice some page views from mobile devices during those period of time (including my own!!). So in short, I was creating the problem myself … hahaha …

  • http://www.homebusiness.more2go.com Mei Ling

    Liew, I experienced this when I first upgraded my WordPress to 2.1. Being a non-technie myself, drilling down to the problem wasn’t easy. I endured it for 1 week! I had to change the theme manually, everyday without fail. And it stopped – without me doing anything!

    After reading Scott Burket’s blog, I think I’d better start putting in WP-Mobile, as I think I did notice some page views from mobile devices during those period of time (including my own!!). So in short, I was creating the problem myself … hahaha …

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