uploading a theme

@tdowning,

Make sure you have uploaded the ENTIRE folder ( your theme , ex. lets say your theme is ‘ TWENTYELEVEN ‘ so you need to copy that ‘ TWENTYELEVEN ‘ folder to ‘ WP-CONTENT/THEMES/ ‘ ) .

And Inside that your new theme folder, there must be a CSS file including the theme NAME , AUTHOR INFO etc . This CSS file should be named as ‘ style.css ‘ .

Re-check these, and ask if you have any problem .

Thanks,
Mebox .

Follow these steps to upload a theme ;

1. Download / or Design a wordpress theme . ( let’s say you have downloaded a theme from somewhere, and its’ name is ‘ myTheme ‘ )

2. Now go inside that downloaded theme ( go inside myTheme folder ) and make sure the theme’s CSS file and other essential files are inside .
( Inside the myTheme folder, there should be a CSS file called STYLE.CSS and also a PHP file called INDEX.PHP, and HEADER.PHP . and there may be number of other PHP files as footer.php, page.php etc . But what essential are STYLE.CSS, INDEX.PHP, HEADER.PHP )

3. After confirming that everything is inside the folder, upload the entire folder ( myTheme folder ) to your web server . This should be done using your FILE MANAGER in CPANEL or just by USING A FTP SOFTWARE like FILEZILLA .

YOU SHOULD UPLOAD THE ‘ myTheme ‘ folder to WWW.YOURSITE.COM/WP-CONTENT/THEMES/( <strong>your theme should be uploaded here</strong> )

What I mean is, after uploading, the theme directory should be ,
www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/myTheme

4. Please ensure that all the files have been uploaded correctly without any loss during the upload process .

5. Now go to your admin panel ( http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin ) and go to the section ‘ APPEARANCES ‘ from left side TABS menu of the screen . Then click ‘ THEMES ‘ .

6. A page will appear including some screen shots of the THEMES you have installed in your website . Your new theme, myTheme will be there .

7. Then just click ‘ preview ‘ button, and if it’s working fine, click ‘ activate ‘ button .

Thanks,
Mebox .

If the problem still occurs, even after uploading the files following the steps I have told you, then problem may be inside the STYLE.CSS file . just get a backup of the STYLE.CSS file and edit .

Just remove the upper part and replace with this ;

/*
Theme Name: myTheme
Theme URI: http://yoursite.com
Description: simple theme
Author: yourName
Author URI: http://wordpress.org
/*

But I advice you first get a backup of the STYLE.CSS file .

Of course . But only if you do it in the correct way . Missing a single line of code will give you problems . So please look your CSS file carefully . And upper part you will see a credit as i mentioned before . Replace it with the one i have given . Then you will see a new theme called ‘ myTheme ‘ in you admin panel under Themes .

Thanks,
Mebox .