Trouble moving theme from one WP installation to another

  • Resolved yarnboy

    (@yarnboy)


    15 years, 5 months ago

    I designed a new theme by mucking around with the classic theme. I want to move it to another WordPress installation, but after I upload all of the files to my wp-content/themes folder and preview it, everything looks wrong. Some of the styles have made it (background color, some font attributes) but most have not (layout especially). Here’s the location where it is working:

    yarnboy.com/area51

    I’m trying to move it here:

    yarnboy.com/wp

    The above location still has my old functioning theme. Any advice or information is greatly appreciated.

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  • Hi,

    Just a guess…

    I doesn’t look like you renamed your theme in style.css, so that may be messing things up when you try to install your theme in the new directory without giving it a new theme name.

    /*
Theme Name: WordPress Classic  <strong>[change the name here, and update the rest]</strong>
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. :)
*/
    Thread Starter yarnboy

    (@yarnboy)

    Hello,

    Well, that was a really good guess, because it totally worked. Thank you very much!

    -Jesse

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