I have experienced that in the past with the same version, and it went away over time. Has your page slug for the forums changed at all? There are redirect plugins that you can use to make sure your users get to the page they are looking for, you may want to try one of those to avoid losing visitors.

I know 3.0 is out soon (can't wait!) but I've had a weird issue as well that I thought should be brought to the author's attention (in case it also affects 3.x). The 2.x version works wonderfully, except I may have messed something up when I tried to modify the actual Forums page. I just added some verbage that said “These will be upgraded within the next 2 weeks” since my current implementation is kind of ugly and I've gotten feedback saying so.

Since adding that text, my site theme resets to defaults every few hours. If you visit http://www.joyfuldigesting.com/ and see the default WordPress theme with the blue header background, that means it has reset again. This is a very, very odd bug. I have since deleted the text from my forums page, but it has happened once more since.

Is there a way I can prevent this from happening? Should I somehow recreate the page entirely and never try to add text anywhere?

Thanks very much!

Tee said:

I know 3.0 is out soon (can't wait!) but I've had a weird issue as well that I thought should be brought to the author's attention (in case it also affects 3.x). The 2.x version works wonderfully, except I may have messed something up when I tried to modify the actual Forums page. I just added some verbage that said “These will be upgraded within the next 2 weeks” since my current implementation is kind of ugly and I've gotten feedback saying so.

Since adding that text, my site theme resets to defaults every few hours. If you visit http://www.joyfuldigesting.com/ and see the default WordPress theme with the blue header background, that means it has reset again. This is a very, very odd bug. I have since deleted the text from my forums page, but it has happened once more since.

Are you saying you added this text to the actual page (as in Manage > Pages > Edit)? That is harmless enough and certanly - I believe I can say defintely - is not connected to loading the correct theme.

I have had this happen to me now and then (actually on my main site which does not host the forum) and have heard of it happening to others but to be honest I don't know why WP get's confused. Have you asked on the WP forums?

FYI for anyone else experiencing the issue - The WordPress forums told me to scan my error logs, since themes reset to default if any error is encountered. I found 1 error from a plugin, disabled the plugin, and… the reset still occurs, but now less often.

So that's a good starting point for anyone else experiencing the issue… hope it helps!

I am sure you know a LOT more about themes/plugins/WordPress than I do, and you make a valid point.

I hope it's not the theme - I've been afraid to customize it TOO much since I want to be able to update versions as they are released, but I have performed several minor customizations along the way. I wrote myself a note for each so I can re-customize a future version but I'm hoping to not have to do that too often.

In my case, the plugin that showed an error was the Simplified Admin Menus plugin (something like that). I disabled it, and the theme resets did slow down (2x in one day compared to 6x in the previous, with more traffic on my site). Then, someone else in the WordPress forum said that WP-Mobile plugin (for displaying to mobile users) was causing the theme reset problem for him. I went ahead and disabled that, and so far, no more theme resets.

Finally, another user chimed in and said it was probably that we didn't follow the install instructions for WP-Mobile, which is true in my case…

I posted all of this here in case another visitor experiences the same problems. Hope it helps, and thanks again for your reply!