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WP-Amazon seems to be the culprit. De-activated it and everything seems to be working fine.

The plugin site no longer exists – anyone know of a good Amazon plugin?

Many thanks esmi

Anyone?

Ah problem solved – changed Permalink to default and then back to custom links and everything back to normal

t-p thanks for the advice. No further on.

As there wasn’t much on the blog I deleted the entire database (drop) and deleted all files via ftp on my server. Downloaded and reinstalled a fresh copy of WordPress, all in that order.

At present I have nothing on the blog except the welcome post and the two plugins that come as standard. When I go to Themes, the only one of course is the default theme still no preview.

I know I can go on ahead without seeing the preview but just in case it catches up with me sometime down the road I’d like to sort it out now if possible.

Anyone got suggestions?

While my ftp program and WordPress are now on talking terms I’m still puzzled as to why I’m still getting this message:
Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Name Description
_notes Stylesheet is missing.

Even though at the time of writing I only have the default theme on my server.

Hi guys, just off the phone to my ISP and we went around all the settings and we eventually discovered a small bug caused by them that was causing the problem. He was able to fix it from his end and everything now seems to be working as normal.

Many thanks for the help and advice

Kevin

I have three blogs: one is a testing site, the other two are real live blogs, with real content. This morning I downloaded a new theme happy-halloween to my testing blog via the WordPress interface and it shows up perfectly in both WordPress AND my ftp program.

Also I downloaded the same theme to the blog I’m having problems with.

I activated happy-halloween and went to my ftp program, it does not appear in my ftp program. However, when I checked it out on the internet it was the new download which was showing.

All themes are in the WordPress ‘Themes’ directory.

Very, very confusing.

I have forced an update of my WordPress files via the WordPress interface with no obvious effect. I’m also thinking of ftp-ing the up to date WordPress files from my ftp program just in case some of the files got corrupted. What’s holding me back from doing this is what happens if I ftp the complete set of WordPress files to my troubled blog will it have any affect on the content and/or themes already there.

For my money the solution lies with this warning given in the WordPress Themes page:

Broken Themes
The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name Description
_notes Stylesheet is missing.

I have deleted every theme in turn and reinstalled them all without effect the above warning notice still remains.

Many thanks for your continued support.

The Default twentyten, blue taste, codium extend, and thesis themes.

Twentyten is the only theme that appears both in WP and my ftp program.

Blue Taste I downloaded via WP downloads, it does not appear in ftp program

Thesis I uploaded a zip version via WordPress uploader it does not appear in ftp program.

Condium Extend I ftp’d from FireFTP it appears in my ftp programbut does not appear in WordPress Themes

I’m completely confused.

Any suggestions?

That doesn’t sound too good.

tell me about it

I’ve ran a check for nested templates and there is definitely none there. The only directory showing anyway is WP default Theme ‘Twentyten’ and here is it’s path /public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyten

As I’ve said the other Themes, one I downloaded from WP interface and the other one that I had on my computer I uploaded in zip format and if I activate them they seem to be working as you’d expect

Can’t figure out why I’m getting that _notes Stylesheet is missing and why wordpress won’t talk to either of my ftp programs

Reuben thanks for your reply, there is a ‘show hidden file’ facility in Fireftp, I have it set by default and it’s not showing the Themes/Directories referred to above.

As an experiment I downloaded Filezilla (it’s quick!) and used the ‘force show hidden files,’ command again no sign of the two Themes/Directories, and they are there for I can see them from within WordPress.

Anyone?

No, uploaded the unzipped version via FTP, uploaded the zip version via WordPress interface.

11pm Irish time, probably out for the night. Seriously though all my other blogs are working and with the same theme. Just discovered this blog is on complete strike hasn’t even installed the widgets!!

Thinking of using default template, deleting my theme from within WordPress and then uninstalling it from my ftp directory and then re-installing. A bit of work but I’m wondering if that would fix the problem.

The thought crossed my mind if I go down this road will I have to clear all mention of the theme from the database?

Problem solved – deactivated and reactivated all the plugins; that done the trick.

UPDATE OH yes forgot to add I’ve carried out a quick check on the two themes I’m working with and in Content – Themes there is a functions.php file in the themes I’m trying to use e.g. twentyten – functions.php