Sculley

I actually did read that before posting and it didn’t answer my question. Thanks.

How can you tell if the ones from the old page will work??

I added “template: default” per https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development to see what would happen and it uploaded without errors. Only problem was that, of course, the default files overwrote the header, etc.. Realized that all WP templates need PHP so I remembered a site that had this same template with PHP files, found it and uploaded it and now it’s working perfectly. By God, I think I’m getting it.

Thanks for the help,
Karen

And the advice worked to correct the css error. Now, it’s a template error.

Gees, Mercime,

First of all, I don’t know what “port the design to WP-ready format” means. If I did, I may be able to try it. And I did Google “free WordPress themes” and freecsstemplates.org is one of the sites that came up. Maybe you can explain why they don’t work since I found it as a “free WP theme”. And, I am looking for alternate themes b/c I don’t like the themes in the WP Themes area. I only see twenty something themes. If there are others, I can’t find them and have no clue what to click to get them other than what’s on the right-hand side.

And secondly, you will see that I was following chaoskaizer’s advice. Are you saying that his/her feedback is incorrect? No need to get upset when I was following another’s advice about making the template work.

I changed the style sheet to “style.css” (I thought that may have been part of the reason) and reflected change on index. I also added your suggested info above to the uppermost part of the css understanding that mywebsite.com and myblog.com meant that I inserted my website and blog URLs, yes? So, it looks like:

/*
Design by Free CSS Templates
https://www.freecsstemplates.org
Released for free under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
*/
/*
Theme Name: Theme-Name
Theme URI: https://b-animalwise.com
Description: A default theme
Version: 0.1
Status: publish
Author: himself
Author URI: https://b-animalwise.com/wordpress
Tags: white, fixed width, sidebar, widgets
*/

I am now getting this error message:

Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Name Description
Theme-Name Template is missing.

Hmmmmm…just logged in again and it is there and is working fine. Just think it didn’t work from the page I was on for some reason. ?

Thank you both. After I posted, I figured out how to login. I had to go to https://www.mysite.com/wordpress. Then, there’s a “login” link on bottom right. Sometimes, it just helps to spell it out :0).

Regarding themes, are there only 25 of them on https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/? It says: 25 themes, 33,035 downloads, and counting”. Am I missing something? If so, where do I find them all?

You say PHP won’t be a problem but if I want to customize it, it will be yes?

Also, we can upload free templates from somewhere else right?