Recover Wordpress from broken theme

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Recover WordPress from broken theme

April 26th, 2010

If you ever find yourself with a broken theme and can't even access the admin side of your wordpress blog, here's a quick way to get back on your feet.

Simply run the following query from the command line or via a tool like phpMyAdmin

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'default'
WHERE option_name IN ('template','stylesheet','current_theme');

(Make sure to select your wordpress database first, of course)

Sure. Your site looks like it was just setup 2 seconds ago, but at least now you can access all the GUI-licious tools of the WordPress Admin panel to fix whatever broke your theme.

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Categories: Programming Tags: Database, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Theme, WordPress

http://twitter.com/alexweberis Alex Weber

Worked as advertised! Since we're running on WP3 with multi-site enabled, I changed wp_options to wp_1_options .

Thanks for the tip!
http://twitter.com/misterpuley Aaron Puley

Added a blog to my Windows Home Server then broke the theme - fixed it now with this - thanks! http://bit.ly/9cy7mN