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Is it possible to remove a broken theme from WordPress using only the WordPress dashboard? i.e, without using cpanel or FTP?

Background: When you are doing customer support, its rare that you have access to the user's FTP or cpanel, but its pretty simple for them to set you up as a temporary user to troubleshoot their site.

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Is this a single site or multi site? If single, maybe just delete it from the themes library? As admin you can do this through Appearance menu. – Steven Nov 25 '10 at 15:09
Ops, I completely forgot you could do that while writing my answer. :) Don't think I ever used admin to delete theme, usually just nuke folder via FTP. – Rarst♦ Nov 25 '10 at 16:25
In this case, appearance menu just has a message at the bottom that the theme is broken, but does not list the them or thumbnail in the grid of installed themes. WP 3.0.1 – Scott B Nov 26 '10 at 4:08
Does it show up in Editor so my answer applies? – Rarst♦ Nov 26 '10 at 6:54
@rarst: No. The user has run out of disk space, so this might be an isolated case. – Scott B Nov 28 '10 at 15:30

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You can use Appearance > Editor to kill theme's header in style.css. Won't really remove it, but will prevent it from showing up as available in WP.

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When you not have enough rights on the files, then is the editor not possible. You can use a database-tool; i use "Adminer" as plugin inside WordPress, install via automaticly installer and then you can edit inside the database. Search in the table _options, entries "template" and "stylesheet" and kill the values for this two entries. After this you can set a new theme normaly. Alternative you can set a new value for template and stylesheet. alt text See on the example screenshot for the values "greyfoto", this is the value for the theme.

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