You would actually need to place it in the directory of the active theme. Currently that appears to be:
wp-content/themes/classic/
on your site. Also, what is the template you downloaded? Knowing that might help in troubleshooting any additional issues in its use.
Each theme needs to be in a folder within the /wp-content/themes/ folder. Each theme will have a /graphics/ folder, and a number of .php files, and a style.css file.
If you have all those files, and the graphics folder, then put them into a folder of their own rather than “loose” in the /wp-content/themes/ folder. It won’t necessarily matter what you name the folder, the theme is “found” from the info within the commented section at the top of the style.css file.
I moved the file into the wp-content/themes/classic/, but no
change. The name of the theme is chocolatebar. I think its theme
83 in the viewer. All the files are within the folder “chocolatebar”
on the server.
Thank you for the help
Just a thought, but can I change the URI in the theme editor to the
file location? So instead of having http://wordpress.org/
I would have http://letstalkwedding.com/wp-content/themes/classic/
chocolatebar?
How could you acces the template in wordpress 2.0?
paul7362: you need to remove the “chocolatebar” folder from the classic folder. Chocolatebar needs to live in the themes folder on its own, with the classic and default folders.
Then you need to open the chocolatebar folder and make sure that you see a graphics folder and a bunch of .php files and a style.css file. If you see instead another folder named chocolatebar or something, you just have to keep looking until you find the files rather than a folder – then you need to move the files and the graphics folder into the first chocolatebar folder. (Sometimes a decompression program adds in other in-between folders.)
The path to the theme needs to look like this /wp-content/themes/chocolatebar/, where the chocolatebar folder holds only the /graphics/ folder, the various *.php files, and style.css. Once that’s happening, the Presentation screen in the admin section should find the chocolatebar theme the way it finds classic or default.
(For probably an easier way to understand what happens, just open the /wp-content/themes/default folder, and look at the way it’s set up and what it includes…. That’s how chocolatebar should be set up. I don’t think what I posted is particularly clear, but can’t think right now how to “clear it up”….)
