Theme is irregularly reset to default theme

  • I am running my blog with WordPress version 2.0.2 and has come across a quite annoying problem. I have found a workaround, but I’d like to find out what the problem is:

    I have installed and adapted the Almost Spring 1.0 theme to my blog. Every 2, 3, 4 or x days, the active theme is being reset to the wordpress 1.5 default theme. I have tried stripping away everything I don’t need and still it happens.

    I think this started when I installed a new, hidden blog in the same database as my regular blog, but with a different database prefix. This new blog has wordpress 1.5 default theme as selected theme.

    The workaround I have made is to remove the default theme and copy the Almost spring theme to the default directory and rename the theme in the .css-file. But I don’t think this is a satisfactory solution and would like to get a clue of what’s doing this.

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  • I’m ttying to make this work long-term : wordpress running from two seperate domains with two seperate codebases, but sharing a database.

    I want one domain to use a subset of the posts from the first but when I point both WP installs to the same database, all the URLs point to the first WP install.

    Is there a way to make this work??

    Hopefully this should resolve the reverting on my site…

    This issue can also happen if you use SSL vs non-SSL to access your site.

    For example, you’ll see your theme working fine at https://example.com, then you (or someone else) will load https://example.com, which resets the theme to default.

    incursio

    (@incursio)

    This might help some people out there:

    https://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/misc/2006-11-15/wordpress-theme-resetting-problem-solved.html

    I’m having this problem on all my sites (each site uses a different theme) that are using the lastest installation of WP. Each site is on it’s own server and each has its own database. I have tried deleting the default theme but came up with my site disappearing altogether when it reverted back to the default theme, even though it wasn’t there. It also got rid of the theme I was using. Ended having to reinstall the theme. I will try the suggestion with the plugin and will post my findings here.

    A definitive solution would be: 1) delete the “Default” theme, 2) rename your theme folder as “Default” (only the folder name).

    I am having the same problem of my theme randomly changing back to the default. I have only one blog, one URL, and am a total beginner, so most of the replies are above my head. Is there a simple solution please?

    Ok,

    I’ve just spent a great deal of time struggling with this issue, and I hope my conclusions may be of some help to somebody.
    Must check that you didn’t copy some symlinks into your wp-content folder in my case this was called
    advanced-cache.php -> plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php
    Obviously some servers require these, so in case you were uploading and accidentally replaced the one on the server with the uploaded, this could be the source of your problem.
    Another thing is that in some cases the wp-mobile plug in creates this distortion, even though it was properly installed on my server the reset stopped once I have disabled the plug, to my great sorrow since it is an awesome plug.
    At the moment I’m not experiencing this anomaly anymore, and I hope this is of some help to all of you out there feeling the frustration and looking for the solution.

    I’ve tried every fix that I can find, including adding my own debugging code throughout some of the WordPress include files. None of them will put a dent in this theme changing problem (which is quite annoying). So, after getting really angry about it, I moved the default theme to default-original and took my desired theme and moved it into the default folder.

    I waited and the blog magically switched back to default about 8 or 9 hours later, but it’s coming up with the theme I want!

    Example: https://rackerhacker.com/

    Now that’s one I would NEVER have thought of! Creativity is a true blessing…. and I will file this one away to hopefully remember should the problem ever occur for either me or my clients!

    Thanks for posting!

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