Downloaded 2 themes and they aren’t showing up on my Admin site

roguerisa
(@roguerisa)

16 years, 7 months ago

I am only able to see 3 themes in my admin site, plus the theme I am currently using. I have downloaded two themes, uploaded them to the site, and they are still not showing. (I downloaded them through the wordpress theme viewer site)

I downloaded them, extracted them to the correct folder, uploaded them to my site via FileZilla, and nothing.

Am I missing a step?

Thanks for any and all help!

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magnavox
(@magnavox)

16 years, 7 months ago

It doesn’t sound like you are missing anything.
Are you sure you uploaded them to wp-content/themes?

Thread Starter roguerisa
(@roguerisa)

16 years, 7 months ago

Positive. I actually re-uploaded it just to make sure.

I don’t understand why I wouldn’t see the themes in my admin panel unless I can only see a set number of them.. =/

Chris_K
(@handysolo)

16 years, 7 months ago

make sure you didn’t get an extra level of directories when you unzipped the themes.

Good:

wp-content/themes/YourTheme/style.css

Bad:

wp-content/themes/YourTheme/YourTheme/style.css

Thread Starter roguerisa
(@roguerisa)

16 years, 7 months ago

Just checked – no double directories… I don’t get it! lol

Chris_K
(@handysolo)

16 years, 7 months ago

Hmmph.

Ok, file permissions? Compare the permissions on the the directory of the theme you can’t see to one you can see.

whooami
(@whooami)

16 years, 7 months ago

what are the names of the themes?

Thread Starter roguerisa
(@roguerisa)

16 years, 7 months ago

02-glass-full-of-water-11 and ileather-10

those are the two I downloaded. As far as permissions go, I’m not sure where to check that stuff, but I’ll look around and try to figure it out.

whooami
(@whooami)

16 years, 7 months ago

oke, well assuming you didnt change the name of the themes..

http://www.wickedlycoolbean.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/ileather-10/

ileather ought to be there — it’s not.

additionally,

http://www.wickedlycoolbean.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/02-glass-full-of-water-11/

that ought to be there — its not 🙂

Did you happen to rename the directories, because if you did not — you are not uploading themes to where you think are.

Thread Starter roguerisa
(@roguerisa)

16 years, 7 months ago

hmm.. I did it the same way as Ohmiya “GIN-san and Glow 3.0.

how odd…

Trying again, just for fun. =)

whooami
(@whooami)

16 years, 7 months ago

dont upload to WWW/

thats a symlink intended for the server’s use.

you need to be uploading to public_html/../../../… or httpdocs/…/…./… or whatever your hosts equivalent is.

NOT WWW/…/…/….

Thread Starter roguerisa
(@roguerisa)

16 years, 7 months ago

But I don’t even know where public_hml is, and I used the WWW thing for the other two themes that *did* work…

whooami
(@whooami)

16 years, 7 months ago

I said .. you use whatever the equivalent is ..

what do you see when you FIRST login to your site via ftp — what are the directory names?

Im not going to explain why the theme you uploaded “eventually” showed up for you — its beyond the scope of whats necessary here.

Thread Starter roguerisa
(@roguerisa)

16 years, 7 months ago

They didn’t ‘eventually’ show up – it was automatic.

But I see

a file with ‘…’ next to it
one with ‘logs’
and
one with ‘wickedlycoolbean.com’

whooami
(@whooami)

16 years, 7 months ago

and inside wickedlycoolbean.com?

Thread Starter roguerisa
(@roguerisa)

16 years, 7 months ago

another ‘…’ folder, along with:

aspnet_client
cgi-bin
cp
images
webalizer
wordpress
and individual files

Index.php
index_b4_wordpress.html
login.html

If you are looking for something specific, ask.