theme editor won’t display uploaded theme!

  • Resolved biancx

    (@biancx)


    17 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve tried the entire day today to upload a theme using FTP, but every time I’m on the theme editor, it still only lets me choose between WordPress Default and WordPress Classic. I’ve done exactly what the wordpress lessons said and I’ve gone through the forum posts in the past, but I still don’t know why the theme I uploaded isn’t showing up.

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  • If you give the link to where you downloaded the theme, perhaps someone else could verify that it isn’t a problem with a theme itself rather than the process you’re using.

    Are you sure you upload the theme folder under ..wp-content/themes/?

    Make sure you don’t have an extra level of directories (which is somewhat common from unzipping themes).

    You want:
    wp-content/themes/YourThemeName/style.css

    not:
    wp-content/themes/YourTheme/YourThemeName/style.css

    Thread Starter biancx

    (@biancx)

    the theme i want to use is from here: https://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/themes and it’s called Imhotep … and yes, i uploaded it to wp-content/themes/

    when i go visit https://myownadschool.com/wp-content/themes/ (my site is myownadschool.com) it only lists the folders for classic and default.

    question: was i supposed to upload the whole theme folder with all its contents, or am i only supposed to upload the theme folder with the style.css file? (sorry if its stupid, i’m new to this thing?)

    The theme folder and all contents.

    So… where’d you put it when you uploaded it?

    Thread Starter biancx

    (@biancx)

    HandySolo, thanks for asking me that question! it made me realize that i didn’t upload the files to the www/ folder and that’s why it wasn’t working (where my web host said to upload my files). so now that i’ve uploaded the theme in the proper folder, it is now working – i was able to select and change my theme.

    thanks everyone for your replies! i don’t think i would have realized my mistake without this thread.

    Good deal ??

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