Title: Adding a template
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Adding a template

 *  Resolved [paul7362](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paul7362/)
 * (@paul7362)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-template/)
 * I am very new to WP and blogging, so excuse me if my question may
    have a simple
   answer. I have found a template from wordpress themes. I downloaded it and then
   placed the files into my wp-content / themes on my server. According to the bottom
   of the page of my WP presentations screen, that is all I needed to do for it 
   to show up there. But it didn’t. It did not come with any instructions.

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-template/#post-305099)
 * You would actually need to place it in the directory of the active theme. Currently
   that appears to be:
 * wp-content/themes/classic/
 * on your site. Also, what is the template you downloaded? Knowing that might help
   in troubleshooting any additional issues in its use.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-template/#post-305122)
 * Each theme needs to be in a folder within the /wp-content/themes/ folder. Each
   theme will have a /graphics/ folder, and a number of .php files, and a style.
   css file.
 * If you have all those files, and the graphics folder, then put them into a folder
   of their own rather than “loose” in the /wp-content/themes/ folder. It won’t 
   necessarily matter what you name the folder, the theme is “found” from the info
   within the commented section at the top of the style.css file.
 *  Thread Starter [paul7362](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paul7362/)
 * (@paul7362)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-template/#post-305235)
 * I moved the file into the wp-content/themes/classic/, but no
    change. The name
   of the theme is chocolatebar. I think its theme 83 in the viewer. All the files
   are within the folder “chocolatebar” on the server. Thank you for the help
 *  Thread Starter [paul7362](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paul7362/)
 * (@paul7362)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-template/#post-305237)
 * Just a thought, but can I change the URI in the theme editor to the
    file location?
   So instead of having [http://wordpress.org/](http://wordpress.org/) I would have
   [http://letstalkwedding.com/wp-content/themes/classic/](http://letstalkwedding.com/wp-content/themes/classic/)
   chocolatebar?
 *  [escante18](https://wordpress.org/support/users/escante18/)
 * (@escante18)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-template/#post-305259)
 * How could you acces the template in wordpress 2.0?
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-template/#post-305299)
 * paul7362: you need to remove the “chocolatebar” folder from the classic folder.
   Chocolatebar needs to live in the themes folder on its own, with the classic 
   and default folders.
 * Then you need to open the chocolatebar folder and make sure that you see a graphics
   folder and a bunch of .php files and a style.css file. If you see instead another
   folder named chocolatebar or something, you just have to keep looking until you
   find the files rather than a folder – then you need to move the files and the
   graphics folder into the first chocolatebar folder. (Sometimes a decompression
   program adds in other in-between folders.)
 * The path to the theme needs to look like this /wp-content/themes/chocolatebar/,
   where the chocolatebar folder holds only the /graphics/ folder, the various *.
   php files, and style.css. Once that’s happening, the Presentation screen in the
   admin section should find the chocolatebar theme the way it finds classic or 
   default.
 * (For probably an easier way to understand what happens, just open the /wp-content/
   themes/default folder, and look at the way it’s set up and what it includes….
   That’s how chocolatebar should be set up. I don’t think what I posted is particularly
   clear, but can’t think right now how to “clear it up”….)

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