Themes not showing up

Make sure your theme directories are not nested. See the first video in the following post.

https://educhalk.org/blog/?p=91

Thanks Figaro. No they are not nested (stuffed). I downloaded them to my desktop, unstuffed them, then uploaded them via FTP to my “wp-content” – “themes” folder.

Make sure you are not uploading everything as binary files. I don’t do a lot of FTPing (prefering to use Cpanel and work with zip files), but if you are using Filezilla, you may want to click Transfer/Transfer type in the top menu and make sure it’s set to Auto. That should (as I understand it) transfer your files in ASCII mode and your images in Binary mode.

Well I tried uploading the stuffed file directly to my cpanel, Then extracting it. Everything shows up in my cpanel…..however, I still get nothing in my “apperance – theme” section.

Did you unzipped the folders containing themes before uploading!!

I’m having the same problem. Did you resolve your issue?

I don’t know if this is going to be the same for everyone but…

I’m running Ubuntu Desktop (8.10). I had developed the basics for a new theme on my main computer (also Ubuntu Desktop 8.10) and had transferred the theme files to my working laptop via jump drive. I maintain my web development in www/*projectfolder*. I had to change “Other” permissions to “Access Files” on the theme folder I had transferred into wp-content/themes. You have to set the permissions to “access” (at the very least) otherwise the web server can’t see the folder.

I don’t know what kind of scenario might or might not exist which would be similar for a windows system or if someone has linux but a different permission scheme, but that’s what had to be done in my case.

I was using just file transfers on the OS, not WP’s upload/import functions.

p.s. Might also need to apply (at least) a “read-only” to (at least) the “style.css” otherwise wordpress reads the theme as broken.

No they are not nested (stuffed). I downloaded them to my desktop, unstuffed them, then uploaded them via FTP to my “wp-content” – “themes” folder.

‘Nested’ and ‘Stuffed’ is not the same thing. ‘Stuffed’ is slang for ‘compressed’. I’ve always assumed it was derived from the name of the archiving utility– Stuffit. This is not what figaro warned you against. Your the index.php file of your theme should be in ‘wp-content/theme/<yourthemename>/’ not in ‘wp-content/theme/<yourthemename_hey_this_is_a_great_theme>/<yourthemename>’. See the extra directory? You don’t want that. If your theme unzips with a wrapper directory you do not want to upload that wrapper but only what is inside it. In other words, find the directory with index.php and upload only that directory and its contents.