I have downloaded 2 wordpress themes, extracted from zip files, uploaded them to my server in wp-content/themes .. but none of them show in my wordpress admin panel .. what could be wrong? Pls help
Never had such a problem before. Did you have any previous experience in succeeding in installing wp themes? You are supposed to upload a directory to wp-content/themes, not all the theme files to it. This is my initial guess. And the themes might not be in compliance with wp standard?
Make sure your uploading the folder so it appears in /wp-content/themes/themename/ Not the files to /wp-content/themes/ make sure theres a folder there. Only other thing i can think of is to open style.css in the theme and check this appears at the start of it: /* Theme Name: blahblah Theme URI: whatever Description: My theme Version: 10000000 Author:whoever Author URI: whatever */ If not add it, might make a difference. If this is still not working then what happens if you access yoururl.com/wp-content/themes/theme-name/ do you get a file listing??
If the WP admin panel is not reporting 'missing stylesheet' errors at the bottom of the page. I would assume the issue is you are uploading the entire theme folder straight from extracting it. Most themes are stored in the following hierarchy: Folder1/Folder1/files.php Folder1/Folder1/Images/images.jpg You should upload them as: Folder1/files.php Folder1/Images/images.jpg Hopefully this will solve it