My theme’s information looks crappy in dashboard

Maybe you could post the comment area of your style.css here?

Peter

Here is css comment area:
/*
Theme Name: GroundUp
Theme URI: https://www.badscience.org/
Description: not much to it
Version: 1.0
Author: Me
Tags: blank, simple, homemade
*/

This is what the theme manager displays:

GroundUp Theme URI: https://www.badscience.org/ Description: not much to it Version: 1.0 Author: Me Tags: blank, simple, homemade 1.0 Author: Me Tags: blank, simple, homemade by Me Tags: blank, simple, homemade

not much to it Version: 1.0 Author: Me Tags: blank, simple, homemade

All of this theme’s files are located in /themes/ground_up.

Tags: blank, simple, homemade

As you can see, there is a bunch of repetition as if that information displays through a loop until only the last thing is left.

The classic theme, in contrast, displays like this in the theme manager:

WordPress Classic 1.5 by Dave Shea
The original WordPress theme that graced versions 1.2.x and prior.
Activate | Preview | Delete
All of this theme’s files are located in /themes/classic.

Tags: mantle color, variable width, two columns, widgets

and its CSS comments look like this:
/*
Theme Name: WordPress Classic
Theme URI: https://www.ads-software.com/
Description: The original WordPress theme that graced versions 1.2.x and prior.
Version: 1.5
Author: Dave Shea
Tags: mantle color, variable width, two columns, widgets

Default WordPress by Dave Shea || https://mezzoblue.com
Modifications by Matthew Mullenweg || https://photomatt.net
This is just a basic layout, with only the bare minimum defined.
Please tweak this and make it your own. ??
*/

I can’t figure out what I need to do to get my theme information to look nice in the dashboard. Thanks for any help!

Still wondering how I can get my theme’s info to look good, and not recursive, in the dashboard. Does anyone have any ideas?

Here is what I’m talking about – my ugly formatting on left, nice theme formatting on the right:

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Hey, experts, any thoughts?

looks like there are no ‘proper’ linebreaks in your header – even though it might look ok in your editor.
can you post a link to the stylesheet? or post it into a pastebin and link to it?

I’m running a local site while I develop it, but I can upload and post a link…
I just copied the commented header code from the default theme and edited it, so I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work.
Here’s the style sheet:
https://www.badscience.org/junk/style.css

That theme info works fine for me when I use it within one of my themes.

thank you.
i downloaded your file, and uploaded it with dreamweaver ftp into the classic theme and activated the theme preview in admin: screenshot.
it displays absolutely normal online.

Whoa. Amazing. Perhaps I need to check it live. Will upload now <busy uploading>

<blush>
Looks great online. It’s odd that it looks so bad local, and other themes look normal on my local testing server.

Thanks y’all! Helped me learn my 10th new thing today!

Hey I had the exact same problem. I created the css file earlier on a different computer and it was working fine. Then this evening, after editing it in DreamWeaver on my laptop, the problem occurred.

Turns out, yes, some kind of funky line breaks were introduced to the header of my CSS. Probably by DreamWeaver? Opening a working css file in a text editor (such as the default theme css) and resaving worked for me. Interestingly, doing the same edit job in DW did not work. Only worked in TextEdit as plain text.

Hope it helps someone…