Title: Broken theme message
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Broken theme message

 *  [natasha-lovas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natasha-lovas/)
 * (@natasha-lovas)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-message/)
 * I downloaded a theme, but I am getting a message that it’s “broken”. The message
   says the theme was installed, but is incomplete, it seems to be missing a stylesheet
   and template.

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 *  [Eric Amundson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sewmyheadon/)
 * (@sewmyheadon)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-message/#post-800542)
 * Can you look in the files that you unzipped and see if it’s got a style.css and
   index.php file?
 * Which theme did you download?
 *  Thread Starter [natasha-lovas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natasha-lovas/)
 * (@natasha-lovas)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-message/#post-800548)
 * yep, they are both in the inzipped file. I downloaded theme #14588, it’s the 
   Golden Gate bridge, pretty cool actually.
    I’ve downloaded it a few time and 
   named it different things — but it just isn’t happy right now.
 *  [Eric Amundson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sewmyheadon/)
 * (@sewmyheadon)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-message/#post-800581)
 * Hey Natasha,
 * I’m a bit dense, so could you give me a link to the theme and I’ll check it out
   for you? I tried searching for it, but am coming up short. Surely I’m missing
   something simple. 🙂
 * Another silly question: You are unzipping the theme, then uploading to your themes
   directory in wp-content, correct?

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 * Last reply from: [Eric Amundson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sewmyheadon/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-message/#post-800581)
 * Status: not resolved

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