Blank website and themes error message

  • Hello,

    My website is blank, just a white page and on my dashboard homepage I get the error message “ERROR: The themes directory is either empty or doesn’t exist. Please check your installation.” In the file manager, I have three themes installed in the themes directory at public_html/wp-content/themes/ They are twenty thirteen, montezuma, and responsive. All three seem to have similar files in them, but only the twenty thirteen theme shows up under the wp-admin/themes control panel. It seems like there is a control or index file that is missing or empty, but I don’t know what that should be. I did, after several hours of trying to fix it, reinstall wordpress, and I think that worked, but it still has the same error message. When I installed montezuma and responsive, and tried to activate them or preview them, I get a white screen that just says “cheatin’ uh?”.

    This is pretty frustrating. I have tried to understand what is going on by examining some of the other threads with this same error message, but they don’t appear to help me. At first I followed a tutorial video on installing wordpress, it went relatively smoothly. I had a functional, barebones webpage with the theme responsive installed. No problem. I then tried to edit the header and I added a picture to it. I did not resize it to the standard recommended size (which I think was 300×100 pixels), thinking I could later. Hit upload and that’s when it all fell apart. Maybe I just am in over my head, but I had heard how “easy” it is to use wordpress. I’m not finding that to be the case.

    You can look at my website, if you want, at https://www.libertystew.com

    Thanks,
    David

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  • What happens if you activate the 2013 theme?

    Thread Starter drobine

    (@drobine)

    I can’t activate it. Under the manage themes tab, it says current theme twentythirteen, but the only option is customize. Activate isn’t even there.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter drobine

    (@drobine)

    It also says, below that, “You only have one theme installed right now. Live a little! You can choose from over 1,000 free themes in the www.ads-software.com Theme Directory at any time: just click on the Install Themes tab above.” But the other two are clearly there in the file tree.

    Thanks

    it says current theme twentythirteen

    That’s because the 2013 is your current active theme. Try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

    Thread Starter drobine

    (@drobine)

    Well, that didn’t appear to do anything. Never mind, thanks for your advice. I’ll just have to hire someone to fix it when I can afford it.

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