Error deleting Newspaper theme

Hi

I’m trying to update Newspaper theme to the latest version. I follow the guidelines to activate another theme, and then, once Newspaper theme is deactivated, to delete it. But it won’t delete, instead giving me this message:

Deletion failed: The requested theme does not exist …

Even when I go into my file manager through my host login and delete the theme folder from the database, the Newspaper theme still shows up in my themes in the WordPress dashboard.

Also, this seems to be exclusive to the Newspaper theme, as I have installed other themes and successfully deleted them with no problems.

Anybody else know how to solve this?

Thanks

Mark

Learn to use FTP; best way to properly delete things as you know they are gone. If you have aggressive caching running, you should disable that when doing theme changes. If using CDN, you need to poke an update.

Try using wp-optimize to clear transients in your dbase; also resave permalinks whenever you change themes to clear stuck rewrites.

Hello,
I am having the same problem mentioned above by Edge44.

I read that one of the changes in the latest version of WordPress was that theme changes would all be done on one window.

Does all of this mean that we can only change the theme using FTP?

Thank you
Tom