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Wordpress Themes

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by AndreeaM, Mar 22, 2008.

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    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
     
    AndreeaM, Mar 22, 2008 IP
  2. yangyang

    yangyang Banned

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    #2
    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?
     
    yangyang, Mar 22, 2008 IP
  3. wd_2k6

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    #3
    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??
     
    wd_2k6, Mar 22, 2008 IP
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    Spider-Man Banned

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    #4
    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;)
     
    Spider-Man, Mar 22, 2008 IP