Title: Adding Themes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding Themes

 *  [dfbfloyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfbfloyd/)
 * (@dfbfloyd)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-themes/)
 * I’ve managed to get our blog set up at [http://blog.corexcel.com/](http://blog.corexcel.com/)
   but I’m having a tough time getting new themes installed. I’ve ftp’d 2 themes
   to the same location as the default and classic theme but they don’t show up 
   in the design area of the dashboard. The theme files are located at /public_html/
   wordpress/wp-content/themes/. I downloaded the zip files, extracted the files
   and slid the entire folder over to the web server using WS_FTP. Not sure what
   else I need to do.

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-themes/#post-782672)
 * Well, you need to be sure they aren’t in nested directories. That sometimes happens
   with both plugins and themes. So make sure you have this:
    `http://yourcooldomain.
   com/wp-content/themes/yourcooltheme/`
 * and not this:
 * `http://yourcooldomain.com/wp-content/themes/yourcooltheme/yourcooltheme/`
 * Make sense? Otherwise, I cannot imagine why the themes aren’t showing up where
   they are supposed to.
 *  Thread Starter [dfbfloyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfbfloyd/)
 * (@dfbfloyd)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-themes/#post-782673)
 * I just checked the directory structure and it’s set up as /public_html/wordpress/
   wp-content/themes/pop-blue/list of the .php theme files along with an images 
   directory.
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-themes/#post-782675)
 * What does it say in the WP Dashboard? At the bottom it probably should talk about
   missing theme files? I simply cannot imagine why they are not showing up then.
   🙁
 *  Thread Starter [dfbfloyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfbfloyd/)
 * (@dfbfloyd)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-themes/#post-782676)
 * That’s what has me stumped. It doesn’t say anything about missing theme files,
   it just lists the Default and Classic themes. Everything else seems to be working
   fine so I believe the installation was done right.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-themes/#post-782680)
 * >  I just checked the directory structure and it’s set up as /public_html/wordpress/
   > wp-content/themes/pop-blue/list of the .php theme files along with an images
   > directory.
 * [http://blog.corexcel.com/wp-content/themes/pop-blue/](http://blog.corexcel.com/wp-content/themes/pop-blue/)
 * results in a 404.
 * its related to how you have your subdomain set up, or where you are placing the
   files, or something since this works
 * [http://www.corexcel.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/pop-blue/](http://www.corexcel.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/pop-blue/)
 *  [elgerdh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elgerdh/)
 * (@elgerdh)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-themes/#post-783182)
 * I’ve read the instructions on adding themes, which says this
    “upload the new
   folder (with the files left inside) to the themes directory of your blog, which
   is located within the wp content directory.”
 * wp content > themes
 * where is wp content directory and how do i get to it?
 *  [elgerdh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elgerdh/)
 * (@elgerdh)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-themes/#post-783183)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [elgerdh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elgerdh/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-themes/#post-783183)
 * Status: not resolved

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