Title: Broken theme – template missing
Last modified: February 7, 2017

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# Broken theme – template missing

 *  [Johanka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanka/)
 * (@johanka)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-template-missing/)
 * I’m running the 2004-12-19 nightly and have a theme consisting of css file plus
   index.php installed in the appropriate directory (according to the manual in 
   the Codex). Under the presentation tab in wp-admin, this theme shows as “broken”.
   Its name links to [http://mysiteurl/wp-admin/mysiteurl](http://mysiteurl/wp-admin/mysiteurl)(
   which is nonsense, of course), and its “description” reads “Template is missing.”
   
   I wonder, what kind of template is missing? The manual says it’s enough for a
   theme to have just css and index, which is what I have.

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 *  [redsoxnut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsoxnut/)
 * (@redsoxnut)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-template-missing/#post-120070)
 * Why does [http://mysiteurl](http://mysiteurl) lead to WHT?
 *  [vinnie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinnie/)
 * (@vinnie)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-template-missing/#post-120076)
 * >  Why does [http://mysiteurl](http://mysiteurl) lead to WHT?
 * [Because it’s the “I’m feeling lucky” google result for “mysiteurl” and you’re using Firefox](http://www.google.com/search?q=mysiteurl&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official).
 *  Thread Starter [Johanka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanka/)
 * (@johanka)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-template-missing/#post-120084)
 * Okay, the generic-looking url may not be that important.
    But I would still love
   to know, what kind of template do I not have.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Johanka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanka/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-template-missing/#post-120084)
 * Status: not resolved

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