Title: Cannot Edit My Theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot Edit My Theme

 *  [maritza1212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maritza1212/)
 * (@maritza1212)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-my-theme/)
 * Hello Everyone,
 * I am not sure if this is the right place for this question.
 * I am very new to wordpress, I had a custom design made for a client and I changed
   the theme name in the style.css wordpress editor and updated it and now it says
   that the theme selected does not exist. I wanted to change it back but now I 
   can’t.
 * I was thinking about downloading the style.css to my desktop and change the Theme
   name using Dreamwaever, but when I downloaded the file from the ftp, the filesize
   changed and now its larger. I am confused, can somebody help with this. I really
   would appreciate it. Here’s the site I am working on [http://ganardollar.com/](http://ganardollar.com/)
 * Oh and one more thing. I see that there is an upgrade for the wordpress theme.
   I am skeptical about upgrading cause I heard that you can lose your design, content
   ect.
 * Is this true and how can I upgrade it without losing anything.
 * Thanks for your advise in advanced.
 * Maritza

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-my-theme/#post-1148527)
 * I suggest that you download the entire theme and check all files in a text editor–**
   not** Dreamweaver.
 * The only things you might lose due to an upgrade are any plugins or theme-specific
   functions that do not use the API correctly.
 *  Thread Starter [maritza1212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maritza1212/)
 * (@maritza1212)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-my-theme/#post-1148658)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for the response, but I don’t know what I am looking for. How do I fix
   the problem where it says that the theme selected does not exist?
 * and when you say, that by upgrading the theme I might lose some specific functions,
   what are those? Can you give me some examples?
 * My apologies, I’m very new to this stuff and I really appreciate your advice.
 * Thanks again.
 *  Thread Starter [maritza1212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maritza1212/)
 * (@maritza1212)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-my-theme/#post-1148659)
 * Thanks for the advice about not using dreamweaver. I will take that into consideration.
   Is there any specific reason why?

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 * Last reply from: [maritza1212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maritza1212/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-my-theme/#post-1148659)
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