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Theme changed without permission

  1. inpromptu
    Member

    Will we be able to get Vostok back or is it gone forever already?

  2. georgekazazis
    Member

    Same with me too

  3. mythhonora
    Member

    I fixed it! Go to the Vostock theme and click on LIVE PREVIEW an then when it gives you the preview, click SAVE AND ACTIVATE. It worked!

  4. mythhonora
    Member

    Also, I emptied the cache, but that didn't fix it, the preview etc did, but maybe it needs the empty cache to be able to view as well.

  5. ronablackphotography
    Member

    Thanks!
    (I'd tried that originally, but it went back to Twenty Ten. Something must have changed in the interim.)

  6. eddylerp
    Member

    Thanks for telling me about this thread Timethief, as you're aware mine disappeared too but suddenly returned, hope it doesn't disappear altogether as this is my University work and I need to submit it for adjudication.

  7. georgekazazis
    Member

    Ok I fixed it! Thanks @mythhonora

  8. mariannewindham
    Member

    Yup. that worked for me too, thanks. I guess they're working on it - support, any updates?

  9. jeffnguyeneckert
    Member

    Vostok is back up and working for me but I lost some of my settings, widgets. I hope we get an explanation from WP support.

  10. timethief
    Member

    There are no updates from Staff and we Volunteers haven't clue what's going on.

  11. joeywilliamsphotography
    Member

    yay! mine works again. thanks so much!

  12. timethief
    Member

    Vostok has reappeared and previously it was displaying Twenty Ten > Check the official wp.com Vostok demo: http://vostokdemo.wordpress.com/ I assume that means Themes Staff did something that created this issue.

  13. meganreibel
    Member

    wahoo! it works!

  14. lmdl09
    Member

    Like @jneckert, my widgets, etc. were thrown for a whirl, but at least the theme is back.

  15. jeffnguyeneckert
    Member

    @lmdl09, Go to Dashboard>Widgets and at the bottom of the screen you can drag inactive widgets back to Left or Right Footer Widget Area. Your settings should be restored, it was stressful until I figured this out. Good luck,

  16. designsimply
    Happiness Engineer

    Sorry for not catching this sooner! I've just found this issue in the forums, so I researched it a bit more and found that it has already been fixed. Whew!

    It looks like the theme switch happened because of a mistake while trying to migrate the location of the theme on our servers. Apologies for any troubles!

  17. lance
    Theme Wrangler

    Hi everyone—very sorry about the outage with Vostok. It was my fault. :(

    The situation is now fixed, and we're running a fixer tool to put all the affected sites back to normal. However, if you don't want to wait for that just head in your Dashboard to Appearance → Themes and activate Vostok again.

    Note: Settings and customizations were not affected by this, just the theme location.

  18. jeffnguyeneckert
    Member

    Thanks for the explanation of the glitch, glad that Vostok has been restored.

  19. putomax
    Member

    thanks!

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