Title: Theme changes automatically
Last modified: January 24, 2021

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# Theme changes automatically

 *  [vilum7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vilum7/)
 * (@vilum7)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-changes-automatically-3/)
 * Hi!
 * I have a problem where the theme constantly changes by itself from time to time.
   I have started using a plugin called “Theme Switcha” to change themes, since 
   I, for some reason, can’t change theme the “normal” way. The website had a custom
   theme before, coded by someone many years ago. When I now want to change the 
   theme to “Kadence”, since I have it on my offline version of the site, it’s impossible
   to do so. I have tried changing the name of the old theme to “Kadence”, I’ve 
   tried to remove all other themes, but I can’t even change the theme to “twentytwenty”,
   because the old custom theme is somehow hardcoded(?) into the website. With that
   said, when I do change the theme with the help of the plugin “Theme switcha”,
   it automatically changes back every hour or so to the old custom theme.
 *  I can also say that I’ve tried with different browsers, and I have also cleared
   my cache, cookies etc. several times, without any results. Could someone please
   tell me how I could solve this problem? Perhaps there’s a code I could insert,
   maybe there’s a way to “force” a theme. Maybe there’s a way to find and remove
   the code(?) that’s coded into the website, that tells the site to use a specific
   theme.
 * Edit: I forgot to add that I’ve also tried to manually change theme in phpMyAdmin
   by editing “template” and “stylesheet”, with no success.
 * Thanks in advance!
    -William
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by [vilum7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vilum7/).

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-changes-automatically-3/#post-13949778)
 * I recommend asking at [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-switcha/#new-post](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-switcha/#new-post)
   so the plugin’s developers and support community can help you with this.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-changes-automatically-3/#post-13949780)
 * I see you’ve already posted there. Please continue in the plugin’s sub-forum.

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 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-changes-automatically-3/#post-13949780)
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