Rating: 1 star

Unfortunately this theme has a bug that completely disables wordpress ??

> [error] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /var/www/html/wp-
> content/themes/genius/inc/template-tags.php on line 227, referer:

I’ve asked the hosting company what version of PHP they are running and they have not replied. It is likely OLD, however. This was a recoverable error for me, but for the average WP user it would not be. I appreciate the difficulty and cost of testing free themes on weird configurations, but would encourage all authors to do a check on the minimum version of PHP that they have tested under, and throw errors if the theme encounters older versions. For one, this would encourage users to complain to their hosting companies about archaic PHP versions still in use.

This is also a bug in wordpress: a third-party add-on like a theme should never cause the whole site, including the admin area, to fall over! Recovery instructions can be found here: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/change-theme-in-db

Short version is: log into your MySQL database that wordpress is using, find the wp_options table, and reset both the “template” and “stylesheet” fields to a known-good theme like twentyfifteen (assuming you have it installed… if you are reading this in 2025 something like twentytwentythree might work). There is also a “Theme” field that I reset as well but I’m not sure that is necessary. Good luck!