Title: Lost Theme!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Lost Theme!

 *  [Judy Apps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judy-apps/)
 * (@judy-apps)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-theme-3/)
 * My WordPress site has been up and running some time. I think I made a mistake
   with widgets, and now the website is completely blank. On the Dashboard it says“
   ERROR: The themes directory is either empty or doesn’t exist. Please check your
   installation.” When I look at themes, I get: “Name dkret3 Description Stylesheet
   is missing.” I just want to restore what I had before! Can someone help – in 
   very simple language please!

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 *  [Kegan Quimby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keganquimby/)
 * (@keganquimby)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-theme-3/#post-3104012)
 * open up your style.css in your theme folder, and paste what is before all the
   styles (on line 1)… within the /* and */
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-theme-3/#post-3104019)
 * Re-upload a fresh, unpacked, copy of the Twenty Eleven folder to wp-content/themes
   using [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients) or whatever file management
   application your host provides.
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyeleven](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyeleven)
 *  Thread Starter [Judy Apps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judy-apps/)
 * (@judy-apps)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-theme-3/#post-3104046)
 * Thanks for response Kegan: I go into Themes and there’s a choice of manage themes
   or install themes – I can’t find style.css there. You can see I’m a beginner 
   with this!
 *  Thread Starter [Judy Apps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judy-apps/)
 * (@judy-apps)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-theme-3/#post-3104048)
 * Thanks also esmi – Will that restore all my content and settings as they were?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-theme-3/#post-3104050)
 * No – this will just install and hopefully activate the current default WordPress
   theme which should never, ever, be edited or deleted. That hopefully will get
   your site up & running again but we have no way of knowing what theme you were
   using previously. Do you know?
 *  [Kegan Quimby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keganquimby/)
 * (@keganquimby)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-theme-3/#post-3104066)
 * [@judy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judy/): sorry i was talking about
   using an FTP client.
 * instead click appearance > editor and paste those lines. i’m guessing you’re 
   missing info you need within the css comments.

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## Tags

 * [restore theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/restore-theme/)
 * [stylesheet-missing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/stylesheet-missing/)

 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Kegan Quimby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keganquimby/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-theme-3/#post-3104066)
 * Status: not resolved

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