Help: Having trouble uploading 3rd-party themes

  • I want my site to have the look and layout of a basic website instead of a blog without having to do too much modification on my part. It will function as my personal website with basic pages/sections (About me, works samples, etc) and I do not want a blogging function.

    Because I can’t find any themes on WordPress that fit this criteria, I want to upload one of many 3rd-party themes I’ve found on the web that fit my needs. But I’m not having any success with the installs.

    WordPress will let me successfully install any theme that I find in the WordPress Theme Directory (such as Arclite, currently: https://christy-robinson.com/). But when I try to upload a third party theme (always a .zip file), I always get the following return (bottom).

    I’m new to WordPress and really appreciate your help. Thank you.

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    Installing Theme from uploaded file: eston-gridlock-fa89070667b9d312f36a1cd98a1eeee40102cda3.zip

    Unpacking the package.

    Installing the theme.

    Theme Installed successfully.

    Warning: file(/home/content/21/4507721/html/wp-content/themes/eston-gridlock-fa89070667b9d312f36a1cd98a1eeee40102cda3/style.css) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/21/4507721/html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180

    Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/content/21/4507721/html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180

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  • if that doesnt work, then upload the theme files manually (via FTP).

    Used an ftp client before? Used winzip?

    There you go.

    Thread Starter longhorns23

    (@longhorns23)

    Whooami, I’d like further help, if you don’t mind. The themes I download are zipped. That will be the package that I ultimately upload/install, right? I don’t have to unzip it or unload or repackage it? Secondly, I’m using godaddy.com, and I’m now looking at what I believe is the ftp (Hosting Control Center – File Manager). If this is not the same as ftp, should I sign up with something like FileZilla? If I AM headed in the right direction (with the Hosting Control Center), do I simply upload the zip file, or should I make sure I’m in the correct folder in the folder tree?

    Thanks a million in advance for your insight.

    same problem here!

    However, the error message doesn’t seem to affect the installed theme at all. But it’s still frustrating to see it, which makes you think something might go wrong with no additional warning!

    Hope some one out there would help us fix this soon!

    My sincere thank you in advance!

    Jun Yuan

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