WordPress theme issue – inactive themes deleted and now missing content

  • Hi there. did a fresh install a week ago – chose a free onepage theme and made a bunch of edits and changes via the gui (not backend).. anyways, uploaded it to live server.

    I then manually removed all the other themes that were inactive (manually via file manager on server).

    My current theme then said – parent theme missing etc.. this was a standalone theme, not a child theme –

    whats the deal? its as if wordpress silently used some other theme for some of the data?

    well i lost a few hours of work – in the future i will not have any themes in-active again –

    any ideas how to approach this in the future without having to be so paranoid??

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  • Hi,

    All content is stored in wp database not in theme. If you delete your theme, all content will still be there. Content is not related to a theme so don’t worry about that in the future. ?? Just install and setup some new theme and you are good to go.

    Thread Starter CamaroMan77

    (@camaroman77)

    well i didnt touch anything – i literally removed the dorment theme folders and the entire current theme bombed out saying its using default values, etc…

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