I’ve looked everywhere I can think, but I just can’t figure out what I am doing wrong. I just moved my blog over to self-hosting. I picked a host that supported WordPress fully and I set up WordPress 2.6. Got the old blog imported fine and I wanted to select a new theme. Here’s what I did:
1) Found the theme I wanted and downloaded it.
2) Went to file manager and selected wp-content
3) uploaded the theme into the directory
4) extracted theme
5) went to dashboard to change the theme, but the theme was not there.
Can anyone guess what I did wrong?
http://www.village-idiot.org/theme-howto
This doesn’t help. The link goes through the steps the person has already done. I have the same problem. They’re uploaded in the correct directory, file permissions seem to match the defaults, and I get no errors or extra theme options.
@strattonbrazil
If you went through the steps that Anonymous did, then you did it wrong.
2) Went to file manager and selected wp-content
3) uploaded the theme into the directory
4) extracted theme
According to this, he/she uploaded the theme to wp-content not wp-content/themes AND they extracted the theme on the server which would also have made the theme nested (AKA — wp-content/themes/themename/themename). Are your themes uploaded to wp-content/themes and are you sure they aren’t nested?
This doesn’t help. The link goes through the steps the person has already done. I have the same problem. They’re uploaded in the correct directory, file permissions seem to match the defaults, and I get no errors or extra theme options.
It most certainly IS correct – and you and the OP are INcorrect (wrong).
You are uploading the theme to wp-content. That is incorrect, as whooami’s video clearly shows. Themes go into the wp-content/THEMES directory as a sundirectory, i.e. wp-content/themes/yourtheme
But if you want to argue the point … how’s that working out for you?
