• I upgraded from 2.51 to 2.6 using the GoDaddy installer on their connection manager… Now my theme doesn’t work. The content is there but just white space and no proper formatting. In fact none of the other themes currently work. WordPress says this:

    The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template …

    My blog is located at thebluesblogger.com. Please can someone help. This is terrible. I hope there is an easy fix. Let me know. It will be much appreciated.

    Thanks

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  • Next time do yourself a favour and leave those crappy automatic upgraders alone… It is not rocket science to do a manual upgrade.

    Something went wrong – your stylesheet is not there:
    http://thebluesblogger.com/wp-content/themes/darkwater-11/style.css

    Try to upload the backup copy of your theme.

    Thread Starter thebluesblogger

    (@thebluesblogger)

    Uploaded backup copy. No Luck. Same thing. The current and all available themes ( including clasic ) do not work. Anything else I can try?

    I don’t have a clue… because I don’t understand how those automatic things work, so I don’t know what can go wrong with them. (usually, everything)

    Automatic or not – you made a backup of your files and DB befoe proceeding, right? So, just go back to your previous version and do a manual upgrade. That’s what I would do, although I have to admit, this is way more complicated than an initial manual upgrade would have been.

    Thread Starter thebluesblogger

    (@thebluesblogger)

    Can you point me in the right direction for doing a easy manual upgrade? Re: link?

    I have rolled back to previous version and the same problem exists. I will try the manual way.

    Out of curiosity, when you upload the files does it keep your original content?

    Sure, just click here.

    Of course your content will just be there. Your content is in the database, the WP files are on your server. I only hope that you didn’t edit the default or classic theme!

    Thread Starter thebluesblogger

    (@thebluesblogger)

    No I didn’t edit anything … Thanks for the response. Not very technically minded at these things.

    Have you heard of this happening before? Where none of the current or available themes work… And when you roll back to previous version it doesn’t fix it? Is there a few small things I should be trying or just do the manual upgrade?

    Sure again. Something just went wrong, can be a lot of things. Files that weren’t transferred because of some hickup, not all files transferred, etc. I guess you just put up the new WP pack and see if things come back to life.

    Btw. The last time I upgraded, I used a plugin to do it and everything went smooth, but other people had some problems with it. When you do things manually, you at least know what you did and other people (like on this forum) know the process, so things better go wrong when you’re working manually!

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