As background info, I am using a child theme of one of the standard WP themes – call it “a-child”. I have found a few entries in the log indicating that files from a different theme, call it “b”, have been accessed, notably style.css and images/search.png. According to the log, the referrer in each case is a posting (two different postings). But the same postings occur hundreds of other times in the log, without trying to get any files in the wrong theme. The source IP addresses are different, some of which look pretty legit and some cannot be resolved. The timing for each access is quite different. In one case, it looks like a normal session where someone typed in the URL for a posting directly; in the other cases, it looks like they clicked on a link to a posting from a third party site.

The thing is, there are hundreds of other accesses to the same postings without any GETs of files in a theme I am not using.

Is this a known issue? If it is not happening due to the URL being typed in directly, how could it happen at all?

It seems when guests visit my blog they see the old theme I was using, and not all the latest posts are being displayed on the front page.

But when logged in they see the theme I’ve activated in Appearance > Themes.

At first I thought this was because of the cache, but it’s been months and it’s still the same problem, even after clearing the cache and/or using Chrome’s/Chromium’s Incognito mode.

I couldn’t find any setting in the dashboard to fix this.

Thanks.

Recently I’ve noticed that Admin / Manage Themes says I’m using Default, but I’m not. There is an option to select my Theme but I’m reluctant to press the button to correct it in case something breaks.

I would welcome any suggestions on why WordPress admin shows Default as being the current Theme, even though my own Theme is actually the one in use.

I’m using WordPress 3.0.3