Theme history

  • Hi,

    I recently changed the theme on my WordPress, and unfortunately it has made several pages unreadable. I am not the original owner of my WP, I don’t know what the theme used to be.

    How can I see a history of themes, or a history of changes made to my WP site? It is currently live and not working.

    Thanks,
    Tameem

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  • WordPress doesn’t save any history, but I’ve seen a plugin you could use for that (for future).
    You could try the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) and see if the site was saved. If it was, and you can’t tell by the look, you can view the source of the saved page and look for the theme slug where it loads the style sheet.

    Thread Starter tameembis

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    Thank you Joy! It sounds like there is some pointer to the theme called the “theme slug”. Is this pointer also available on the source of a page’s history, if I check revisions of a page?

    If not, can you provide more info on how to check the theme slug?

    Thanks!
    Tameem

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    see https://www.sterndata.com/blog/what-theme-does-that-site-use/

    Thread Starter tameembis

    (@tameembis)

    @sterndata I was able to see the theme using your link but

    @joyously It’s strange- the internet archive option isn’t showing the actual theme at the time of capture. I tried several different links on the site and all seem to be the current theme, but the content of the timestamp.

    Hi, @tameembis

    I recently changed the theme on my WordPress,

    Did you delete the old theme? If not, it should still be under Appearance > Themes and if you don’t have too many themes, you can check to see what the old theme was.

    If you deleted the theme and you have access to the database, there is another way, that I’m not 100% sure of it. Joy might have additional info, since she’s the theme expert here, but this might work. First, make sure you backup your database, just in case anything really bad happens. (like missclicking stuff)

    Then, lookup in the database (without touching anything) in wp_optionstable for option_name like theme_mods_ You can use the search tool.
    theme-mods-query

    You’ll get a list of (I think all) themes that were active with their modifications:
    theme-mods
    And that should help you narrow your searches. I’m not really sure how this theme_mods_ option works, but it might help you.

    Hope this helps.

    Vlad is correct that the database should have an entry for theme_mods that I forgot about. If your theme followed the easiest way to do theme options, there should be an entry for that theme, which gets created when you activate the theme. It contains all the theme’s options in one array, including the menu and widget options. You can see the order of activation by the option_id column, which increments for each option.

    I see Vlad has used my theme!

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