How To Manually Reset The WordPress Theme

Created by Pavel Voronov, last modified by Confluence Administrator on Apr 17, 2017

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If you happen to be stuck in a situation where you need to reset the WordPress theme to the default one, follow these easy steps:

Navigate to cPanel >> phpMyAdmin
Open the console

Select the Desired Database in the SQL Tab, select each of the below lines individually and execute each of them as in the image below

update wp_options set option_value = 'default' where option_name = 'template'
update wp_options set option_value = 'default' where option_name ='stylesheet'

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