Unable to Switch Themes v.3.0.1

  • Dave Pitman

    (@dave-pitman)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    Greatings!

    Searched but found no answers.

    Have installed WordPress 3.0.1 with the default theme (TwentyTen), and site is working fine.

    Uploaded a couple of themes, Mystique.2.4.2 and Atahualpa353.

    They are listed in the Appearance—Theme subpanel, but:

    Selecting preview of Mystique renders a blank white page.

    Selecting preview of Atahaua renders a white page with the text line at top: “Powered by WordPress & the Atahualpa Theme by BytesForAll. Discuss on our WP Forum “

    I went ahead and installed Atahualpa, and the Admin panel has options for setting up the theme, but still displays the same as the preview.

    I can switch back to the default with no problems.

    I have a couple of plug-ins, but deactivating them makes no difference.

    Any ideas what could be wrong would be appreciated.

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  • bconstant

    (@bconstant)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    I am having the same issue, where the entire theme description from style.css is used by Theme Editor in the theme name dropdown, causing an error – I keep getting a message that my theme does not exist. This is causing me huge headaches!

    Edit: Default theme Thematic works fine. The problem is that my child theme, which until this point had been ok, seems to have diarrhea of its name/description/uri/etc, like Theme Editor is not parsing this info correctly.

    Edit #2: I just reinstalled wp-admin and wp-includes folders, and this resolved the issue with parsing of template name, however I’m still getting the non-existent theme error when using the editor :/

    bconstant

    (@bconstant)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Dave: I just solved the problem with my themes, and it was a weird solution. It turned out to be a problem with line feeds in the head of my styles.css file, where even though I had the correct information (theme name, parent), for whatever reason the line feed wasn’t being interpreted correctly. I have been editing these files in Dreamweaver and using it to FTP the files as well, so I don’t know why suddenly this would be an issue.
    My solution: opened my child theme’s styles.css in TextWrangler and manually retyped the template info lines at the top. In the Save dialog I chose the default Unix-type LF, which is what I was looking for in the off chance Dreamweaver had introduced an oddball LF. As an added precaution I also used a different FTP program. Problem solved!
    I hope that’s helpful – good luck!

    Thread Starter Dave Pitman

    (@dave-pitman)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Hi bconstant,

    Thanks, but doubt it is related.

    I have not made any edits to default php pages. The core files are all default as far as I know.

    So, basically, out of the box, something is broken.

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