Strange problem viewing themes page

  • misangela

    (@misangela)


    16 years, 2 months ago

    This is not a debilitating problem for the functionality of WP, but it’s a weird one that I’d like to know if anyone else has had: on the themes selection page (mydomain/wordpress/wp-admin/themes.php) the theme that is being used displays its complete code on the page. The thumbnail is still there in the middle of the code and the other themes are below that. I cannot look at any theme files because I get a ‘url too long’ error. But the theme works fine.

    ?? Is this not bizarre? Here’s a screenshot of the first quarter or so of the code: http://www.misangela.com/theme_page.jpg

    If anyone has a clue about why it would do this, could you enlighten me?

    Thanks!
    Angela

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    You edited the theme files (style.css?) in an editor that adds unwanted BOM or the wrong type of line breaks.
    It happens with a lot of Mac editors..

    See a similar thread:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/142249?replies=8

    Thread Starter misangela

    (@misangela)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you! I appreciate your response. Mystery solved.

    🙂

    Edit: Mystery solved, but I can’t seem to get the issue resolved. I saved the files as unicode-8 w/ no BOM (which is by default OFF) as instructed, but got the same result. The only choices as far as the unicode is concerned were C,D,KC,KD. No LF. I use Dreamweaver if that makes any difference.

    Edit #2: Apparently it’s all about dreamweaver. Which sucks royally, but there it is. When I took the text file and uploaded that then changed it to .css, all’s well.

    So, for you dreamweaver users, no matter what your settings, it appears that DW will mess up the themes page unless you copy the css out of DW and paste it into a plain text editor.

    Thanks so much for replying. I appreciate it. 🙂

    Angela

    Thread Starter misangela

    (@misangela)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    AHA! I overlooked one section of the DW settings! It’s lurking under code formatting pref, which I looked at but didn’t SEE. Now it’s fixed and I should have no more weirdness.

    Thanks so much – I hope this post helps others.

    Angela

    fotp

    (@fotp)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    I had the same problem using Primepress theme – after using DW to alter the CSS file – but upon pasting the CSS code into text editor and saveing as a Unicode-8 file the problem has gone.

    Great stuff. Thankyou very much!

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