How to download my custom theme?

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I'm taking over a website that was previously managed by another person, which had installed a self-made custom theme (uploaded through .zip file). In other words, the theme is not available online. It was made for the website.

The person does not have the original files and I need to update it. Is it possible to reconstruct/download the theme so I can modify it offline and then re-upload it? I do not find anywhere a download option for the theme.

Alternatively, is it possible to bulk download the website and somehow reconstruct the theme? In principle, all should be there.

I know there are some related posts here but can't find the proper answer to my question.

I'm taking over a website that was previously managed by another person, which had installed a self-made custom theme (uploaded through .zip file). In other words, the theme is not available online. It was made for the website.

The person does not have the original files and I need to update it. Is it possible to reconstruct/download the theme so I can modify it offline and then re-upload it? I do not find anywhere a download option for the theme.

Alternatively, is it possible to bulk download the website and somehow reconstruct the theme? In principle, all should be there.

I know there are some related posts here but can't find the proper answer to my question.

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Share Improve this question asked Jan 10, 2021 at 20:53 elpadrerobertoelpadreroberto 2333 bronze badges 6

• 2 Do you have FTP access to the server where the site is hosted? – Q Studio Commented Jan 10, 2021 at 21:11
• @QStudio Probably. Is there a generic way to connect? I log in through mysite/wp-admin – elpadreroberto Commented Jan 10, 2021 at 21:22
• Probably? Generic? FTP is usually secured by username / password, which is managed from the host control panel, but there are other means, including adding plugins to give FTP access. – Q Studio Commented Jan 10, 2021 at 21:24
• @QStudio I was only given the login details for website admin. I am on Filezilla and tried to join to mysite.com but don't know which port to use. Still, it seems to work without port, but I get "Remote certificate not trusted." – elpadreroberto Commented Jan 10, 2021 at 21:29
• 4 Create a backup using a backup plugin like updraftplus, download the backup to your local server, and restore it. You will have the theme files as well as plugin, data, media files. – Shazzad Commented Jan 10, 2021 at 23:25

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You can download installed themes and plugins from the WordPress dashboard with a plugin like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-theme-plugin-download/

I'm a developer and I took over an existing wordpress site. The previous dev had uploaded a custom theme but hadn't otherwise given anyone a copy. So I had to get it out (in order to edit it as the client wants). I searched for hours for how to do it, but I couldn't find a way!

• First attempt (didn't work for me, but may work for you): I installed a plugin called 'WP File Manager'. Click on 'WP File Manager' on the left hand menu, then navigate to wp-content/themes and select your theme's folder and 'Download'. Unfortunately it kept saying 'Unable to create archive' so that didn't work for me for whatever reason (I looked for conflicting plugins but couldn't fix it).

What worked

• I was already using a plugin called 'UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore'. It's used the back the whole site up (I was backing it up on AWS S3). So I simply downloaded the backup files and one of them contains all the custom themes:

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