lisaisbell

erm, where do I look to find out? (see what I mean, I know just enough to be dangerous ??

Lisa

Thanks esmi, I’ll try that route, I’ve been using the automated install option.

I assume I must have done something to cause it to start installing them wrong but I have no idea what.

I don’t have it in me to tackle it tonight – I’ll try this out tomorrow.

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Okay, I believe I’ve figured this out most of the way on my own. I need a bit of clarification. The template creator simply used the same image over and over in the upper right section of the template – I’m guessing all I need do is modify the filenames referenced in the theme to match graphics I create, upload the appropriately named new graphics into the image folder and that should do it right? Can I get a little hint where to look for the text that needs modified – will this be the header or sidebar template? I assume sidebar but I know logic doesn’t always seem to work on this stuff :-).

How can I make these ad images link to content elsewhere, either on my blog or a different url entirely?

Help or direction to tutorial appropriate is appreciated.

Lisa I.

I’m still getting that message. All of the themes I install are doing that double folder thing and I believe that’s at the root of it, I just don’t know why they are installing this way.

The themes work, except for one that kept giving a broken theme message so I deleted that one and moved on. The themes install, give the message they are installed successfully and just beneath that the error message above. I just click over to themes though and they are available and appear to work.

I would prefer to fix this if someone can tell me how but if not I guess it will just have to be like it is. ??

Thanks esmi, I’ll try that and see if anything else flys apart.

Stay tuned though because I may be back crying in my soup if it doesn’t go as planned ??

esmi, how do I delete the themes I installed so that they are completely gone? Do I just go in that one folder on the cpanel – does deleting the one folder under themes assigned to each theme take care of it or are there pieces of it living somewhere else, in other folders? Deleting the themes doesn’t seem to solve the problem so I thought something else must have been affected that needs put back right with the world before I can go and replace the themes.

Thanks,
Lisa

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my issue.

esmi: I have no idea, I didn’t check to see if the other templates have style.css files …all I know is I can’t add two or three other themes I had picked out as an option.

Clayton: I don’t think that’s it – today I find that Tribune magically works, but I still cannot add another theme (or maybe it just happens to be the themes I picked-hard for me to say when I don’t know what I’m doing ??
Here is the message that comes up regarding tribune which makes me think it is where it is supposed to be:
under >Manage Themes > Current Themes :
All of this theme’s files are located in /themes/tribune/tribune.

This theme appears to be working now so I guess my problem is temporarily solved but it looks like I may not be able to ever change to something else unless I can determine why I’m getting this message.

I just wanted to know how to put things back as they were before I added these themes and don’t know how…is there a place within the Codex you recommend or a good tutorial on how the blog files should look before a theme is on the blog?

Thanks for any help.
Lisa I.