How to see a theme ‘/wp-content/themes/’
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HI
I'm still plugging away at getting to grips with my companies personalized blog. I've been trying for the past two days to upload a theme to my own test Wordpress blog, in order to correct a bug in the companies theme that makes formatting in the Post disappear. The code in the themes CSS file seems to be fine.
Anyhow what I assumed would be a simple step has given me hours of hassle.
I have finally got to the point of uploading an unzipped version of the theme intot ‘/wp-content/themes/’.
Now try as I might my Wordpress admin is completely blind to the fact.
Any attempt at using the Upload facility (which is what I attempted many hours ago) fails. There seems to be no place to say, look out there at my directory - a new original theme - unzipped and ready to go.
Am I missing something very obvious?
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Thanks you are quiet right. I was puttiing in the correct structure in the wrong dir
dur!
Thanks so much for your help
Catherine
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I'll take a crack if you trust me enough with your files
You don't seem to be doing anything wrong, but I could always take a second look for you.
Personally I always unzip before uploading to the themes folder, shouldn't make much of a difference though.
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I don't think you're file is going to the right place.
Default theme has a screenshot here:
http://blog.seoherts.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentyten/screenshot.png
Your theme should have the screenshot here:
http://blog.seoherts.co.uk/wp-content/themes/ubiquity/screenshot.png
But, there's nothing, and I checked the style.css. It's not there either.
Please check your directory structure again. Also, when you upload a template through the wp-admin, you upload the ubiquity.zip file. WP will unpack it as it should if your folder permissions are ok.
Hope that helps,
Vince
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hi I did that but it doesn't show, and by the way thank you and yes that makes sense.
details: http://blog.seoherts.co.uk/wp-admin , Catherine Joyce, testingmyblog
should get you in, and thanks!
ps dir structure now themes/ubiquity
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<thread hijack="">Hey Aran, you UK? On twitter?</thread>
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nice catch!
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Hey, sorry, it's just your directory structure you have a problem with:
/themes/new/ubiquity/*.
Should be
/themes/ubiquity/*.
It was not crystal clear but new was the name for the new theme.
Do that, and it should show up in your admin, if not, let me have your details and ill check it out for you, 2 minute fix.
Marcus
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Maybe I'm missing something, but...
Unzip the file on your computer first, then upload the extracted folder containing the files and sub folders to the themes folder.
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Thanks for helping Marcus. I'm probably being very obtuse. I've done as you instructed, as far as I could. I couldn't unzip the file in /themes/new/ubiquity.zip. Instead I unzipped the file and copied the extracted files in their directory i.e. /themes/new/ubiquity/*.php files and associated dirs. I then logged into WordPress > Appearance > Themes and searched around but I know I'm missing out something important.
I wish I could get WP to just upload the zip file, but it totally ignores me, it's not even very big!
I think I need a coffee!
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Hey Catherine
The basic instructions for adding a new theme manually are here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Adding_New_ThemesFrom reading the above, it sounds like you need to unzip the theme so:
- Create a new directory under themes /themes/new/
- upload (or move) your zip file there
- unzip all the files
Then go back into your WordPress admin and the theme should be available to preview or activate in the normal way.
So, it sounds like you just need to create a sub directory, move the zip there and unzip it and you will be good to go but please let me know how you get on.
Cheers
Marcus
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