Change theme folder name

  • Resolved digitalosophy

    (@digitalosophy)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    Hello all,

    Long time reader first time poster 😉

    Sorry to ask this question as I am not lazy; I think I am just over looking something and would like an explanation if possible.

    I have created a theme, based off another theme.

    So let’s say my original theme was called “original_theme”. Let’s call the theme I created “new_theme”.

    Inside wp-content/themes/ I know have 2 themes, original and new.

    I went into new and changed the following fields to what I wanted.

    Theme Name:
    Author URI:
    Version:
    Author:
    Description:

    Now when I go into my theme manager I have 2 themes (I deleted the defaults).

    My 2 theme’s are

    original_theme
    new_theme

    Everything work’s great – however when I delete original theme I no longer have any themes to select.

    It’s almost like “new_theme” is still dependent on “original_theme”. Does anyone know where I may have over looked something?

    Thanks in advance
    Dave

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  • lostemilie

    (@lostemilie)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    did you switch to new theme before you deleted the original one? and do you maybe in new_theme link to files of original_theme?

    Thread Starter digitalosophy

    (@digitalosophy)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for the response.

    I was linking to an image in my original_theme that I have now changed.

    I just double checked to make sure that I was activating new_theme before removing original_theme. I’m still having the same problem, I guess my next question is am I deleting the theme correctly. As of now I am simply deleting it off the server. I’ll do some searching on it now, but yes i am still having the same problem.

    lostemilie

    (@lostemilie)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    well when you did delete the theme did it show the right them on your page or how did it look like?

    Thread Starter digitalosophy

    (@digitalosophy)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    No when I deleted the original_theme nothing shows under the appearance tab. It completely breaks the site – there is no theme on the front end.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter digitalosophy

    (@digitalosophy)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Oh boy am I stupid, the names are the same in both css files.

    doh!

    Thanks again

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