Unable to upload theme files via wp-admin > theme > upload

Ask your hosts to check if there is a folder ownership issue involved.

thanks for responding….

i am a server administrator… all user and group ownerships are correct for all files present in the directory where files are trying to be uploaded.

Right now, I am getting this error:
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Are you sure you want to do this?

Please try again.
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Thats it.. been trying for some time…. any other solution?

Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress.

The php settings related to uploads are as follows:
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file_uploads = on
post_max_size 32M
max_file_uploads 20
upload_max_filesize 32M
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The theme file is 15 MB .zip file

Good grief! What’s in it?

its ultimatum theme…. i dont think its free… so, i have no way of downloading a fresh copy and checking if the issue is specific to the file…

when i upload the uncompressed folder directly to wp-content/themes, the theme is working fine…

but the customer wants the theme to be uploaded via wp-admin, which is giving me lots of grief…

tried ur first suggestion (de-activating plugins), got this error- The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/udemylsl/public_html/uploads/2012/08.( I had changed the uploads directory)

trying next steps, twenty elevn is the theme presently activated, trying twenty ten

Thanks for the help though

No theme ever needs to 15MB in size! Many are under 1MB. Check that this “theme folder” doesn’t also contain .psd source images or other, non-vital, resources.

I dont see anything, such as that….

meanwhile, i tried uploading a wordpress theme available from WordPress blog. I am getting the same error regarding uploading
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The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/udemylsl/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2012/08.
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I have tried both 777 and 755 permissions. We run Fast CGI.

next, i attempted to do a test fresh wordpress installation, to see if its a problem with his installation – I am trying the latest version – 3.4.1 from https://www.ads-software.com/download/

I cannot install wordpress.

error –

Fatal error: Call to undefined function load_textdomain() in /home/udemylsl/public_html/tech/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/admin.php on line 13

I am not sure what is happening here.,.. have always been able to install this version… done it loads of times

That last error sounds like you only have a partial or a corrupted version of WordPress. Try re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of your current version of WordPress.