{"id":668,"date":"2017-02-11T10:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostduplex.com\/kb\/?p=668"},"modified":"2017-02-11T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:07:38","slug":"how-to-delete-remove-a-wordpress-theme-from-the-wordpress-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-delete-remove-a-wordpress-theme-from-the-wordpress-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete\/Remove a WordPress theme from the WordPress Dashboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We recommended you to remove unused themes. This is a good practice for protecting your WordPress website from vulnerabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Login to your WordPress admin dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse on <strong>Appearance<\/strong> and then click on <strong>Themes<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-dashboard-apperance-themes.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Hover your mouse on a theme that is not active and unused, or you wish to remove that theme. It will show you the option <strong>Theme Details<\/strong>. Click it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-themes-delete-theme-details.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <\/strong>A simple window will open. You can see the <strong>Delete<\/strong> option at the bottom area on the right side of the window. Click it!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-themes-upload-theme-delete-option.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. <\/strong>A confirmation window will open. Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to remove your theme.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-themes-upload-theme-activated.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The theme is successfully removed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recommended you to remove unused themes. This is a good practice for protecting your WordPress website from vulnerabilities. &nbsp; 1. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard. 2. Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse on Appearance and then click on Themes. 3. Hover your mouse on a theme that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}