Need Help removing Demo- Messed up Blog

Hi

I installed the Demo for Newspaper Magazine and now it has messed up my site completely!

I would like to remove the whole installation of newspaper for now.

I did remove the theme from my wp- dashboard

I then went to cpanel and removed it from my server .

But the demo installation is still on my blog.

You can see the menu items, and I can not change headers, etc, etc,

Please help and let me know how to remove the files completely.

link: http://bit.ly/1dQAd79

It is messing up my navigation and I cannot setup the site.

Please help.

Thank you

Best bet is to delete all the files and then replace all content from a backup; or remove everything and do a CLEAN install of WP. Generally you never install “demo” content over a live site — as demo content with WP is intended for blank sites to fill in content for development and will “usually” break an existing site/content since it’s dumping in content which is essentially “placeholder” material for you to edit as a starting point as needed, so hopefully if you’re just starting out, then you start from scratch with whatever theme you want to use.

Not sure that helped. I was here looking up something else. I’m not part of the support team.

One trick is simply remove the content from the location you uploaded it to … then switch back to one of WP’s default themes like twenty twelve. Turn off all the plugins that came with Newspaper. If your site doesn’t work with the normal WP theme, then you probably need to do complete clean install. (It’s happened to me … learning experience.)

Hi Simmons,

Thanks for the reply.
Good advice about the demo install. Wish I had known that beforehand.
The site is actually established.

I figured out the menu and pages. There is just a header problem now.
But since I have a backup from last Sunday, I will try to restore.

Hi Radu,
Thank you for the instructions, they are helpful.

I have actually figured that one out and removed the menu.

The problem was I had a webdesigner and I selected he Newspaper template and he was supposed to put it on my established site and do a migration to a new url.

Unfortunately that guy got to busy and quit on me and I was stuck trying to do it all by myself.

I have now gotten my menu back but there is still one problem with my original theme
and the header upload in wordpress.

If I upload a new header (same size, supported format) I am getting now a message like this:

Warning: Division by zero in /home/freestu/public_html/wp-admin/custom-header.php on line 841

Warning: imagecreatetruecolor() [function.imagecreatetruecolor]: Invalid image dimensions in /home/freestu/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1288

Warning: imageantialias() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/freestu/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-image-editor-gd.php on line 256

Warning: imagecopyresampled() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/freestu/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-image-editor-gd.php on line 258

Image could not be processed. Please go back and try again

I am not sure if this relates to the demo install or any of the plugins that came with thenewspaper and that I had installed.

I guess the only way to find out is to go back and restore my site from last’s backup?

Thanks

Anything in /wp-admin/ is part of the core WP install

usually *all* theme files and demo content will go in

/wp-content/themes/newspaper/
/wp-content/themes/newspaper-child/ (or similar)
/wp-content/plugins/nameofplug/

anything in your root folders are part of the base WP install, not the theme
/wp-admin/
/wp-includes/

(e.g., /home/freestu/public_html/wp-includes/ )

Thanks, Christopher

for the helpful list.
I will stay away from removing anything from the root.

Another thing, I still have the demo on a live site, can I

activate the theme (with the demo part on it)

or do I have to uninstall everything first and then

reinstall the theme to make it work.

Thanks

Thanks, Marius,

I have removed the menus,

But the demo ads are still there.

How can they be removed please?

Thanks Marius for all your help. 🙂

Everything is now removed and working again.

Would have loved to use the theme though

Wooow – had the same issue. Thanks to Radu it was easy to solve – but you really should ad an “uninstall demo” button to prevent heart collapses 😉

Or display the “Install Demo its easy, fast and riskless – Button” a bit less prominent…