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  1. tacticalpink
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I'm trying to install my first theme and cannot get past this error.
    It will not load the stylesheet for some reason. This is being running locally through Xampp at http://localhost/wordpress-2.7/wordpress/

    So far I have tried:

    1) dirname( get_bloginfo('stylesheet_url') )
    2) href="styles.css"
    3) \wp-content\themes\mytheme\styles.css
    4) \wp-content\themes\mytheme\
    5) bloginfo('stylesheet_directory')
    6) bloginfo('stylesheet_url')

    This is my styles.css top section:

    /*
    Theme Name: mytheme
    Theme URI:
    Description: My first theme.
    Version: 1.0
    Author: Self
    Author URI:
    Tags: black, fixed width, two columns, widgets
    */

  2. t31os
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Please post the actual code from your header.php (inside backticks please - top left next to 1 on the keyboard)...

    Also post the stylesheet code produced in View Source when you attempt to view the page...

    <link rel="stylesheet" href=" etc etc...

  3. tacticalpink
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago # 

    <?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Default_Theme
 */
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>

<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />

<title><?php wp_title('&laquo;', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> Atom Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />

<style type="text/css" media="screen">

  4. t31os
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    The stylesheet link is identical to mine...

    Don't think you need this in the header.php file though..

    <?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Default_Theme
 */
?>

    Pretty sure you can delete that...

    Also try removing the fields you left blank at the top of the CSS file...

    Theme URI:
&
Author URI:

    Or just as a test try with just theme name...

    /*
Theme Name: Some name
*/

    NOTE: You should not modify the top lines in the CSS file if it is the active theme, if you have, activate another theme, then re-activate it after changes have been made...

    In honesty, i see no problem as to why it doesn't work, but give the above a whirl anyway...

  5. tacticalpink
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I did some experimenting placing my style sheet into the default theme and it loaded. Eventually I found out that my style sheet was named differently in the theme I'm creating.

    WP will load "style.css" and not load "styles.css".

    That was the issue.

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