Title: custom theme deactivation
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# custom theme deactivation

 *  Resolved [mse48](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mse48/)
 * (@mse48)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-deactivation/)
 * I downloaded a custom theme and now I can’t deactivate it. Can anyone help?

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-deactivation/#post-3982519)
 * Do you mean you cannot activate another theme? If so, you can use FTP to delete
   or change the name on the theme’s folder – which will force deactivate it.
 *     ```
       wp-content
            themes
                yourthemeHOLD
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [mse48](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mse48/)
 * (@mse48)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-deactivation/#post-3982524)
 * Thank you.

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## Tags

 * [deactivate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deactivate/)

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 * Last reply from: [mse48](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mse48/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-deactivation/#post-3982524)
 * Status: resolved

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