Title: Help! Theme crashed!
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Help! Theme crashed!

 *  Resolved [daphnedelay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daphnedelay/)
 * (@daphnedelay)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-theme-crashed/)
 * I read in the support forum regarding content width in the function.php file.
   I looked in it, tried what they suggested and then deleted it (it didn’t do what
   they said). But now the site is BLANK! and in my FTP folder, the wp-content folder
   is blank too!
 * I’m going to try and upload a new copy of the theme to the wp-content folder,
   but please advise 🙁

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 *  Thread Starter [daphnedelay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daphnedelay/)
 * (@daphnedelay)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-theme-crashed/#post-5205459)
 * whew! never mind, that worked.
 * Just goes to show I should never mess with code !!
 * thanks anyway 🙂
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-theme-crashed/#post-5205699)
 * Glad you’re all sorted! Code changes can be powerful, but it’s always safest 
   to make theme changes only in a child theme, so your tweaks won’t be overwritten
   when updating the theme. You can also quickly reactivate the parent theme if 
   something goes awry in the child. Here are some guides in case you haven’t made
   one before:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   
   [http://op111.net/53/](http://op111.net/53/) [http://vimeo.com/39023468](http://vimeo.com/39023468)
 * Have fun and don’t give up on the code! 🙂

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