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I’ve been working on a few different web sites for work the last 30 days and I’ve been doing a lot of the development in WordPress using the Thesis 1.7 theme. I hit full on panic mode tonight when I was trying to tweak a custom function and added some bad pieces of code unknowingly to the theme footer. I clicked on my “Big Ass Save Button” (of which I have renamed to a little bit classier version) and went to check on my site and poof! EVERYTHING on the site went blank. I started breathing into a paper bag as I could not even login to the WordPress backend, like I said EVERYTHING was blank and nothing would load. O….M….G….
So, if this happens to you, here is how you fix it:
1) Login to your host (cPanel) backend and re-name your Thesis file. You can find it in your File Manager by clicking on Public HTML > wp-content > themes.
2) Select “Thesis_17″ and rename the file. I just added four random numbers behind the 17. This will cause WordPress to reset your site to the default theme allowing you to be able to log back in and getting rid of the kiss of death blank site screens.
3) Once you are logged into the WordPress backend. Click on “Appearance” > “Editor” on the left hand side of the admin screen.
4) In the top right hand corner, select “Thesis” from the drop down box under “select theme to edit”
5) Click on “custom_functions php” in the right hand column.
6) Find the botched/bad code in the editor window and delete it.
7) Click “Update File” at the bottom.
Repeat step 1 above, except this time change your Thesis file name back to the original “Thesis_17″. Meaning, erase the random numbers you added.
9) You’re almost done… Now go back to “Appearance” > “Themes” and activate your Thesis 1.7 Theme.
10) And now you’re done. Yay!!
I must tell you though, I had help getting to this point by perusing the WordPress support forums on this issue and also by reading this site.
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I run thesis and I’ve done this several times. Another approach is have an FTP client open to your website (I use Filezilla) and make a copy of the customfunctions file prior to the changes. Then if everything goes downhill you just pasted the old code back in and everything is up and running again.
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