idlethumbs

Thank you very much alchymyth,
I had no idea it was coming from my header description.
I did in fact have that plugin some time ago but it is currently uninstalled and also deleted,

some plugin however (i still couldnt work out which one, as I deactivated my current meta data plugin and the continue reading still appeared) was calling my excerpt as my meta description – which is in fact what i want, but my functions.php (based from twenty-eleven) was calling a continue reading link for all my excerpts, I managed to circumvent the problem by changing the line (313) to return nothing at all as shown:

function twentyeleven_continue_reading_link() {
	return '';

this is probably an inelegant solution – hopefully one that wont bring back gremlins elsewhere? – I am very grateful that you brought the problem into the realms of my understanding so that I could at least do something about it!

hmm that is very strange,
wordpress doesnt store thumbnails of themes in general, I changed the thumbnail of my own theme simply by replacing the file and the new one showed up right away.

You didn’t mention if you’ve checked to see if the thumbnail in your bought theme local folder is indeed different to the one you are seeing on the theme manager?

if its not even the same database I find it highly unlikely that there can be anything saved from the old theme at all, most strange!

Hi, in future you might ask the developer if his theme is compatible,

in any case, you mention trashing a zip file, as I understand it themes are installed unzipped? this should mean there is no zip file to delete from your server.

Unzip your bought copy of the theme onto you computer, first of all open the folder and check that the thumbnail in your bought copy is the one that you are expecting and is different from what you are getting now.

(what i say next assumes that you have not modified the theme styles etc- if you have modified it you’ll need to backup your modified files and restore them after doing this)

open your ftp connection to your themes folder on the server, delete the folder with your theme in it, and then upload the folder from your computer. go to theme manager and the theme should appear there, try clearing cache.

i hope this helps