Title: WordPress Theme reset
Last modified: August 30, 2016

---

# WordPress Theme reset

 *  [iVazanity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivazanity/)
 * (@ivazanity)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-theme-reset/)
 * Hi,
 * Im using the Theme Zerif Lite.
    Im trying to rename the Theme folder “zerif-lite”
   to something like “myowntheme”. Everytime I rename the folder, the whole Theme
   is getting resetted and all my stuff is deleted. Why’s that? Is there any solution?
 * Thanks in avance for your answer.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

 *  [potentdevelopment](https://wordpress.org/support/users/potentdevelopment/)
 * (@potentdevelopment)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-theme-reset/#post-6776666)
 * When you rename the directory of an already installed and configured theme, WordPress
   sees it as a new theme. Instead of renaming the theme, create a child theme of
   Zerif Lite and add your modifications.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘WordPress Theme reset’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [lite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lite/)
 * [reset](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/reset/)
 * [Zerif](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/zerif/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [potentdevelopment](https://wordpress.org/support/users/potentdevelopment/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-theme-reset/#post-6776666)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics