Title: Theme not taking affect
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Theme not taking affect

 *  [xerocool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xerocool/)
 * (@xerocool)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-taking-affect/)
 * I’m using the spiral theme and got a big problem. I edited index.php and uploaded
   it to the right directory and the file doesn’t seem to change on the main page
   after refreshing. Went to my CP and went to edit the theme but there, It’s changed.
   I did not overwrite the main index.php that runs WordPress. What is wrong?..

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 *  Thread Starter [xerocool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xerocool/)
 * (@xerocool)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-taking-affect/#post-123863)
 * Ok. Figured out the solution. Activate another theme and activate spiral theme
   back. Why does this happen tho? wtf?
 * **Edit**: This user is also affected: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=19675](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=19675).
   Must be a bug…Where do I submit it?
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-taking-affect/#post-123866)
 * [http://mosquito.wordpress.org/](http://mosquito.wordpress.org/)
 * Be aware that maybe the problem is with the theme itself, and not WordPress. 
   🙂
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-taking-affect/#post-123992)
 * Have you mailed the Theme author before putting it into Mosquito ?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-taking-affect/#post-123992)
 * Status: not resolved

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