longhorns23For context, here's a question I asked earlier, followed by an answer from a nice responder. Below that is my fresh question now. I appreciate any further insight anyone can give:
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ORIGINAL QUESTION:
I want my site to have the look and layout of a basic website instead of a blog without having to do too much modification on my part. It will function as my personal website with basic pages/sections (About me, works samples, etc) and I do not want a blogging function.
Because I can't find any themes on Wordpress that fit this criteria, I want to upload one of many 3rd-party themes I've found on the web that fit my needs. But I'm not having any success with the installs.
Wordpress will let me successfully install any theme that I find in the Wordpress Theme Directory (such as Arclite, currently: http://christy-robinson.com/). But when I try to upload a third party theme (always a .zip file), I always get the following return (bottom).
I'm new to Wordpress and really appreciate your help. Thank you.
(Here's the error message ...)
Installing Theme from uploaded file: eston-gridlock-fa89070667b9d312f36a1cd98a1eeee40102cda3.zip
Unpacking the package.
Installing the theme.
Theme Installed successfully.
Warning: file(/home/content/21/4507721/html/wp-content/themes/eston-gridlock-fa89070667b9d312f36a1cd98a1eeee40102cda3/style.css) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/21/4507721/html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/content/21/4507721/html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180
Actions: Preview | Activate | Return to Themes page
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ANSWER:
if that doesnt work, then upload the theme files manually (via FTP).
Used an ftp client before? Used winzip?
There you go.
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NEW QUESTION:
The themes I download are zipped. That will be the package that I ultimately upload/install, right? I don't have to unzip it or unload or repackage it? Secondly, I'm using godaddy.com, and I'm now looking at what I believe is the ftp (Hosting Control Center - File Manager). If this is not the same as ftp, should I sign up with something like FileZilla? If I AM headed in the right direction (with the Hosting Control Center), do I simply upload the zip file, or should I make sure I'm in the correct folder in the folder tree?
