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  • hello
    I am trying to upload a theme yet on my WP presentation page it says that the template is missing…what gives?
    Thanks,

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  • 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.

    Thread Starter blogreneem

    (@blogreneem)

    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

    Thread Starter blogreneem

    (@blogreneem)

    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

    Thread Starter blogreneem

    (@blogreneem)

    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…

    Thread Starter blogreneem

    (@blogreneem)

    ok sorry

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