When Your WordPress Theme Keeps Going Back To Default
I’ve got this annoying bug that keeps making my WordPress blog go back to the default theme. This happened twice in the past week and I thought it was some sort of hack attack. I checked WordPress support and it seems that a number of people have been having the same problem. Weird thing is, this started happening to my blog when I upgraded to WordPress 2.2.
The root cause is that WordPress reverts to default in certain cases where it cannot find the theme. A lot of conditions are known to cause this to happen falsely. For example, if the filesystem is slightly flaky, then there are instances where it may return an error incorrectly, causing WordPress to reset to default. Another case is where somebody accesses the site at the exact moment you’re uploading a modified version of the theme.
Anyway, I decided to just rename the theme folder I like as the default folder. In this way, I’m now always using the default settings.
A side note, I’ve been pretty busy at the office. Expect that I might not be able to blog as regularly as I want.
Nyak. I have this problem too!! And I thought it was my laptop that’s got a problem!
Hey Riz, annoying isn’t it?