Help installing new theme (please…)

  • icsblog

    (@icsblog)


    15 years ago

    Hello,

    I have a wordpress blog that I have hosted with Godaddy.com. For anyone who isn’t familiar with how godaddy handles this, here it goes.

    My wordpress account is set up through the hosting plan I have with godaddy. I never used any FTP software to install anything. Whenever I want to switch or try a new theme, I just go to my wordpress dashboard and click on themes and upload the new one.

    I recently bought a new theme and downloaded it (zip file) to my pc. When I go to my dashboard in wordpress to install it I get an error message saying that the style sheet is missing.

    Am I doing something wrong? Is this a problem with the theme I bought, or am I doing something wrong? How can I fix it??

    I know I’m new to this, so I appreciate any help I can get.

    Thanks

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  • maiainternetconsulting

    (@maiainternetconsulting)

    The best way to see if the style sheet is missing is to open up the zip file and see if you have a file called style.css if it is there then the template is fine.

    Did you unzip the files before trying to upload?

    FYI you can upload these to your Godaddy account, just go to Hosting -> select Manage Account for the account you want to add the theme to ->in the hosting control area click on the dropdown, ‘content’ (at the top) and go to FTP client. This will open up two sets of files, one on your computer and one on the GoDaddy server. Navigate to your saved themes file on your own computer, then navigation to wp-content->wp-themes and using the arrow upload the theme folder to Godaddy. Now you can go to your themes are in WordPress and set the new theme up.

    Liz

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