Title: Botched layout when modifying theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Botched layout when modifying theme

 *  [wordman1994](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordman1994/)
 * (@wordman1994)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/botched-layout-when-modifying-theme/)
 * Hello all,
 * I’ve been slowly modifying this blog for a while now and have had success I’m
   moderately pleased with.
 * Today I made an alteration to the footer.php and header.php files at separate
   times. I uploaded them, saw the site changes, didn’t like the results. SO…I unded
   the changes in my local file, setting them back to the way they were when I opened
   them, and uploaded them again.
 * Big time botch. Now I have things missing that weren’t missing before. And in
   modifying the header file, the background is now white where I had changed it
   originally to black.
 * Unfortunately, my forum and this blog are mofidified in two completely separate
   fashions, and it’s hard to keep track.
 * The question here is why could I not re-upload the original files? The thing 
   has gone wiggy and I’e not a clue as to where I should start.
 * Please, any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
 * Cheers,
 * wordman

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/botched-layout-when-modifying-theme/#post-1161380)
 * Sorry, something did not get changed correctly. Get new header.php, footer.php
   files from your theme’s site and upload those.

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