unable to change theme, dashboard only shows current theme

  • Dearest heroes of them all,

    I came here looking for help in my quest to develop a website for my scouting association. I am not an experienced web and WP developer but I’m not afraid of computers in any way or easily startled.

    The problem started during the discovering of wordpress etc while developing the website. A working theme has been installed (eventbright) and all was going well until we decided to change the theme which wasn’t possible anymore. Only the current theme is shown on the dashboard and next to the title there is the circle containing the digit 1 which I suspect to be the theme counter. The installed themes are detected when looking for new themes and in the stylesheet editor.

    Things I’ve tried that didn’t work:
    -Reinstalling wordpress (through dashboard and via FTP).
    -Changing the language from Dutch to English.
    -Disabling all plug-ins
    -Renaming the current theme via FTP reverts to the default theme but didn’t fix it.
    -Renaming the desired theme to 2015 > blank website

    I’ve found a work around by change the theme by adding a line to the config file: define('WP_DEFAULT_THEME', 'THEME-NAME'); which changed the default theme and then renaming the currently active theme so WP falls back to the by this line defined default theme. However changing themes through the dashboard is still not possible and it is not a very nice way to work. I hope to solve this problem, how to restore this functionality?

    Cheers!

    Melvin

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    try MANUAL re-updating wp-admin directory. Download a fresh copy of the WordPress .zip file to your computer, unzip it, and use that to copy re-upload the wp-admin directory

    Thanks Tara, that solved a problem I’ve spent all day on. Three WordPress themes and my custom theme in the themes directory but only Twenty Fifteen showing up in the dashboard.
    First define default theme in config.sys then re-install wp-admin. Thought it might be due to local development setup (Vagrant / Scotch Box) – hope others find this!
    Incidentally the other themes are still not visable!

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