Title: Admin Shows Wrong Theme Active
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Admin Shows Wrong Theme Active

 *  [jskirwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jskirwin/)
 * (@jskirwin)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/)
 * HI
    Apologies if this has arisen before, but I can’t think of any keywords that
   don’t return thousands of hits under search.
 * My site is [http://www.therazor.org](http://www.therazor.org)
 * It’s a 3 col site that I want to change the theme on.
 * Under the Admin – Presentation – Available Themes, whichever theme I select doesn’t
   have any effect: the original stays.
 * Do I have to manually copy the index.php from the theme in the theme directory
   to the root?
    Thanks, Scott K.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308344)
 * In header.php, there are these lines:
    `<style type="text/css" media="screen"
   > @import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> ); </style>
 * Does yours say the same ?
 *  Thread Starter [jskirwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jskirwin/)
 * (@jskirwin)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308669)
 * Viewing the source I see this:
    <style type=”text/css” media=”screen”> [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url( [http://www.therazor.org/wp-content/themes/3col/style.css](http://www.therazor.org/wp-content/themes/3col/style.css));
   </style>
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308670)
 * Don’t view source…. open the header.php file of the theme…. but that seems to
   look right… 3col is the one you want isn’t it? Or is it the old one you don’t
   want? (you never said what theme you are moving from or to.)
 * -tg
 *  Thread Starter [jskirwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jskirwin/)
 * (@jskirwin)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308748)
 * I am trying to use the Theme Switcher under admin to switch to a different theme
   I have installed. 3Col is the current theme that I want to get away from.
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308750)
 * > Under the Admin – Presentation – Available Themes, whichever theme I select
   > doesn’t have any effect: the original stays.
 * Strange – Have yoou checked that the theme you are trying to switch to are complete?
   The minimum theme should have a CSS file style.css with a well defined header:
   /*
   Theme Name: Rose Theme URI: the-theme’s-homepage Description: a-brief-description
   Author: your-name Author URI: your-URI Template: use-this-to-define-a-parent-
   theme–optional Version: a-number–optional . General comments/License Statement
   if any. . */ This is for the Rose theme See: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
 * >  Do I have to manually copy the index.php from the theme in the theme directory
   > to the root?
 * No! Every theme should reside in its own directory under
    <yourblog>\wp-content\
   themes\rose
 * More suggestions may be required 🙂
 *  [fbonani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbonani/)
 * (@fbonani)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308757)
 * After upgrading to Wp 2.0, my themes seem to be one click behind. As an example,
   if I have the default theme when I first go to my site, and then click the theme
   drop down list to change my theme, it seems that it is one theme behind. If I
   click Classic, nothing happens. If I then click on Jakarta, the Classic theme
   is active.
 * Any ideas? Hopefully I have explained myself clearly?
 *  Thread Starter [jskirwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jskirwin/)
 * (@jskirwin)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308759)
 * Fbonani
    Yours sounds like a browser issue. Have you tried viewing the site from
   another PC or using another browser?
 * As for me, the 3Col is showing as Broken Theme: Template is missing.
 * Which template and where would that be controlled? The header of the style sheet
   seems fine:
    /*
 * Dots – A WordPress CSS Template
    Copyright 2004 Alex King
 * Based on: Bloggia 3-Column Template by Alex King ([http://www.bloggia.com/styles/bloggia_themer/](http://www.bloggia.com/styles/bloggia_themer/))
 * */
 *  [CarolineG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carolineg/)
 * (@carolineg)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308760)
 * [@fbonani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbonani/):
    You are using the 
   old themeswitcher pluging, use the new and it will be solved I think! [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54745?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54745?replies=4)
 *  [fbonani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbonani/)
 * (@fbonani)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308761)
 * CarolineG,
 * Thanks for your post and I have gone to the link, but I guess I’m not smart enough
   to figure it out. Do I copy the php file and if so where do I place it? Any help
   would be appreciated.
 *  [CarolineG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carolineg/)
 * (@carolineg)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308763)
 * You should replace the old theme-switcher.php file with the new one. It should
   be in your plugin directory in the wp-content folder! And that will make it work
   like it should again.
 *  [fbonani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbonani/)
 * (@fbonani)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308764)
 * Yes it does. Thanks for the quick response. I feel much better now, it appears
   things are back to normal.
 *  Thread Starter [jskirwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jskirwin/)
 * (@jskirwin)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-shows-wrong-theme-active/#post-308765)
 * Great Fbonani’s problem is fixed but mine is still open.
    Any ideas are appreciated.
   Thanks, JSK

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