Title: Developing New Theme – No Templete Needed?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Developing New Theme – No Templete Needed?

 *  [ohiodirtdigger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohiodirtdigger/)
 * (@ohiodirtdigger)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-new-theme-no-templete-needed/)
 * The article for Theme Development found here, [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
   states
 * > The simplest Theme includes only a style.css file, plus images, if any. To 
   > create such a Theme, you must specify a set of templates to inherit for use
   > with the Theme by editing the Template: line in the style.css header comments.
 * When placing only style.css into my new theme folder, using default as the template
   parent, returns a broken theme error
 * > The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet
   > and a template.
 * Is the article not current or am I missing something?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-new-theme-no-templete-needed/#post-602518)
 * That kind of setup doesn’t work anymore in WP 2.x.
    On the contrary: even if 
   you have your own template files in the theme folder AND you leave that line –
   it will break your theme.
 *  Thread Starter [ohiodirtdigger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohiodirtdigger/)
 * (@ohiodirtdigger)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-new-theme-no-templete-needed/#post-602534)
 * Hopefully, someone will change the article soon to reflect those changes and 
   save others from confusion.
 * Thanks for responding.

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