Accidentally deleted CSS

  • abigail33

    (@abigail33)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    Hey everyone-

    Let me just preface this by saying, I’m completely new to WordPress. 🙂

    I’ve been editing my CSS using the “Editor” panel in WordPress dashboard and I accidentally deleted about half of my custom CSS. Then saved over it.

    Is there any way to recover this?

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  • Rachel Baker

    (@rachelbaker)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Do you have a backup of your theme files?

    If not, can you re-download your theme to restore the full css file (losing any of your edits)?

    Thread Starter abigail33

    (@abigail33)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    I do have my theme files, but unfortunately it was kind of a bare-bones theme and I did a ton of custom CSS. I now realize that, though convenient, live-editing without saving a hard copy was kind of dumb. Oh well, lesson learned.

    Thanks for your response!

    kevinhaig

    (@kevinhaig)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    You should not edit CSS directly. Use a child theme. That way when your theme updates you won’t lose your edits.

    See Child Themes

    primedbeautyclub

    (@primedbeautyclub)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    hi, i did the same thing…deleted entire css… except when i try to re-intall my theme, it fails because “destination folder already exists.”

    how do i re intall the theme?

    Himanshu Parashar

    (@uniquecodergmailcom)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Abigail,

    Can you post your site url, Might be I can help you.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    As per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic. Your problem – despite any similarity in symptoms – is likely to be completely different.

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