Title: fatal error custom_image_header issue…
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# fatal error custom_image_header issue…

 *  [felicia852](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felicia852/)
 * (@felicia852)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-custom_image_header-issue/)
 * I’ve seriously tried for two days to fix this, but have now ran out of wine and
   will admit defeat– I keep getting this error message when trying to do anything
   on my website:
    Class ‘Custom_Image_Header’ not found in /home/frazlabs.com/wp-
   includes/theme.php on line 1403
 * I’ve deleted the theme from the FTP I had planned on using (spun), so doesn’t
   that mean it’s suppose to default back to the old theme? I’ve re-uploaded the
   file it’s having issues with, but no dice. I cannot get to my dashboard, so I’ve
   had to do everything through FTP (and let me just say, I’m neither patient nor
   professional code writer…)
 * any help would be great…I”m now going out to purchase some rum.

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 *  [Mikey Arce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeyarce/)
 * (@mikeyarce)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-custom_image_header-issue/#post-3705025)
 * Do you have access to phpmyadmin or your database managing tool?
    You might need
   to get in there to change your theme to the default to get back into the dashboard.
 *  Thread Starter [felicia852](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felicia852/)
 * (@felicia852)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-custom_image_header-issue/#post-3705027)
 * I’ve got access to myadmin, tell me more about changing the theme to the default??
 * also, does this mean that I’ll never be able to use the ‘spun’ theme, or will
   I just need to go about it a different way?
 *  [Mikey Arce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeyarce/)
 * (@mikeyarce)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-custom_image_header-issue/#post-3705037)
 * [Change a Broke WordPress Theme Using PHPMyAdmin
 * My guess is that once you go back to the default theme, delete your broken theme
   and re-upload, you will be able to use it again. It’s probably looking for a 
   setting that isn’t there (custom image header?) and causing some PHP syntax error
   which is breaking your site.
 *  Thread Starter [felicia852](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felicia852/)
 * (@felicia852)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-custom_image_header-issue/#post-3705041)
 * just kidding, i relabeled the twentytwelve as “twentytwelve-old” and i now see
   a dashboard (very pretty, i might add). so am i stuck using this template for
   life, or will i have to recode a few things in order to make the one i want work?
 *  [Mikey Arce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeyarce/)
 * (@mikeyarce)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-custom_image_header-issue/#post-3705042)
 * Did you try re-uploading a clean version of the “Spun” theme?

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 * [custom-image-header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-image-header/)
 * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/)

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Mikey Arce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeyarce/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-custom_image_header-issue/#post-3705042)
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