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1. Hutcho
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi, I am very very new to Wordpress and am absolutely clueless when it comes to building my site. Anyway, I have Wordpress installed courtesy of a helpful 'Install4free' Wordpresser but have since left everything idle for a year.

   I want to start building my site now and am struggling to change the theme, I download them from the relevant area to wp-content/themes but nothing appears in my available themes section.

   I get the feeling that there would be little reason why anything I save from the internet would automatically appear on my site, that would seem impossible to me so I'm flummoxed.

   Frankly it is likely to be something massively obvious so nobody should worry about 'dumbing-down' as it were, I am probably missing something.

   Any help would be greatly appreciated

   Regards

2. xavierp
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   When you saved the theme to your themes folder, did you unzip them? The theme download needs to be unzipped.

3. Hutcho
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I did yes, tried a few different ones too.

4. xavierp
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Did you preserve the folder names or just expand all the files into the themes folder?

5. thee17
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   the styles.css file also needs a

   /*
   Theme Name: WordPress Default
   Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
   Description: The default WordPress theme based on the famous <a href="http://binarybonsai.com/kubrick/">Kubrick</a>.
   Version: 1.6
   Author: Michael Heilemann
   Author URI: http://binarybonsai.com/
   Tags: blue, custom header, fixed width, two columns, widgets
   
   	Kubrick v1.5
   	 http://binarybonsai.com/kubrick/
   
   	This theme was designed and built by Michael Heilemann,
   	whose blog you will find at http://binarybonsai.com/
   
   	The CSS, XHTML and design is released under GPL:
   	http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
   
   */

   section like the above at the top to appear as a valid theme. Disregard the "Tags:" part yet this is from 2.5 devepment version.

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