Review http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Adding_New_Themes
Reload your Appearance->Themes page, and if necessary clear your browser cache.
Might also find it necessary to change permissions on your wp-content and wp-content/themes folders to something like 777.
I have followed the directions form the themes page and also changed the permissions but still no luck
Did you upload themes in their own folders or in zip files?
They are unzipped to their own folders. The one thing i dont understand is when it keeps saying upload, cant you just download the file and move it to the themes folder?
The one thing i dont understand is when it keeps saying upload, cant you just download the file and move it to the themes folder?
Sorry – but that question makes no sense to me!
are you double-foldered?
Meaning, your directory tree, does it look like so:
wp-content/themes/new_theme/new_theme/index.php
or is it
wp-content/themes/new_theme/index.php
?
If it’s the former, you need to move the inner one up a level.
No, its in wp-content/themes/new theme. What I meant about the upload part is it keeps saying you need to “upload” using cPanel or ftp, cant i just extract the zip file to wp-content/theme without using those programs to “upload”?
you mean directly form the themes repository? If it’s not already on your server, then no – you have to download it to your hard drive and upload it to your server via FTP or SSH.
I’m so confused about this. The harddrive that the wp-content folder is on is the server that is running my wordpress.
wow i finally figured it out. I hadnt updated my /var/www folder with the new themes i only saved them in the home folder. Thanks for the help.
