Title: Broken Theme – missing css & template
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Broken Theme – missing css & template

 *  [seanvzintally](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanvzintally/)
 * (@seanvzintally)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-missing-css-template/)
 * I have a theme that is around 63mb. I tried to upload it from my WP site, and
   that didn’t work. Then I used Filezilla FTP Client to transfer the theme into
   the themes folder. While it was uploading I wanted to browse the themes in WordPress
   and to check the progress of my new “uploading” theme. Well, WP stated that it
   was broken because of missing CSS & missing template. I allowed the upload to
   finished and I logged back onto WP and I got the same problem. I deleted the 
   file off the server. Same problem. I reinstalled WP and uploaded the them again.
   Same problem.
 * I bought the theme from themeforest. I uploaded the unzipped version on WP when
   I did the uploading. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
 * Thanks,
    Sean

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-missing-css-template/#post-3465165)
 * please contact themeforest directly for how to install their themes.
 *  [Japh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/japh/)
 * (@japh)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-missing-css-template/#post-3465169)
 * Hey Sean,
 * You need to upload the theme ZIP file itself. The ZIP file you uploaded is the
   entire package you get from ThemeForest which also contains any documentation,
   PSDs, etc. that the author included.
 * You can get more help with this particular problem in the Envato knowledgebase
   in this article: [http://support.envato.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/269/0/my-wordpress-theme-isnt-working-what-should-i-do](http://support.envato.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/269/0/my-wordpress-theme-isnt-working-what-should-i-do)
 * Hope that helps! 🙂
 *  [pixelfairy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arenar/)
 * (@arenar)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-missing-css-template/#post-3465326)
 * So, when I upload the zip file, it fails and I get the error that the file is
   too large.
 *  [pixelfairy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arenar/)
 * (@arenar)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-missing-css-template/#post-3465327)
 * So, I figured out the problem. I accidentally bought the HTML 5 template and 
   not the wordpress theme.
 * Easy to do since they look identical. …Now I have to figure out how to get a 
   refund for that, but maybe the theme will work.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-missing-css-template/#post-3465328)
 * >  maybe the theme will work.
 * No an HTML5 template won’t work on a WP site. But hopefully they will give you
   a refund or perhaps a credit so you can purchase a WP theme instead.

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## Tags

 * [broken theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/broken-theme/)
 * [delete template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/delete-template/)
 * [missing css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/missing-css/)
 * [missing template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/missing-template/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-missing-css-template/#post-3465328)
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