You have to be sure that you uploaded the entire theme folder into your wp-content/themes folder.
Basically like such:
wp-content/themes/YourTheme
Then have the image folder inside that and all other files.
YourTheme/
[images (folder)] <-images inside that folder
index.php
header.php
single.php
So On..
CHMOD 755 or 777 or whatever then.. I know it’s kinda of a crappy illustration…but this isn’t like drawing on paper either lol!
spencerp
Thanks for pointing that out neon. =)
Open that theme folder and see if a similar theme folder is inside. Inside the theme folder, there should only be theme files and perhaps an image folder. So, if you see the following, as an example:
/Blix/
./Blix/
../images/
… file.php
… file2.php
… etc…
where Blix is the theme, then you need to delete the lot and re-upload just the second Blix folder with everything in it.
hmmm is the style.css a template? the rest i got were image files
“hmmm is the style.css a template? the rest i got were image files”
The style.css is a big part of the template/theme but it isn’t the template itself. All the files like: style.css, index.php, single.php, header.php, footer.php and so on, as well as the images, those files are “template” files that make up a “theme”.
Are any of the other files included with what you got? All the files like: index.php, single.php, header.php, footer.php and so on?
If not, you may have just downloaded a “template” then. Which isn’t a WordPress theme. What’s the name of it and where did you get it from may I ask? Have a link to the place you got it from?
spencerp
makes up the “whole” template or theme.
Incorrect. The files are “template” files that make up a “theme”.
Hahaha, thanks for the correction moshu. =) Adjusted original post above now…weee!
spencerp
hey! thanks for your replies. out of all you listed, i only have a header and footer.php.
this is the theme I am trying to load up: http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/styles/sample.php?wpstyle=pink_lilies
thanks!
That’s NOT a theme, that’s a “style” for WP 1.2.
If you want to make it a theme. follow this guide in the Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrade_1.2_to_1.5#Upgrading_Old_Templates_-_Easy
oops! my bad! thanks a lot 🙂
Yep. Had you mentioned the theme name in your first post – as we always ask to do! – we could have saved a lot of energy, bandwith, time…