Title: Problems creating a theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problems creating a theme

 *  [julisana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julisana/)
 * (@julisana)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-theme/)
 * Hi Guys!
 * This is probably a really stupid problem. I’m creating a theme for a friend of
   mine, and I’ve got a basic HTML template down and functional in browsers. I’m
   slowly incorporating WordPress functionality to it, and in testing that out, 
   I decided to activate the theme.
 * Unfortunately, most of the images don’t show up. The only ones that do are the
   ones that are displayed through CSS as backgrounds.
 * How on earth do I get an img tag to show up properly? I tried incorporating the
   template path in the src attribute and it doesn’t seem to make any difference.
 * The images are stored in a standard image folder within the template directory.
 * I’ve tried googling this and I can’t seem to find anything about this.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-theme/#post-989193)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
   
   I think this may help a lot
 *  [t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os/)
 * (@t31os)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-theme/#post-989205)
 * Are your images stored outside the WP installation directory?…
 * Plonk them inside the images folder of your theme…
 * /wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME/
 * Is where your template files are, so your images would be…
 * /wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME/images/
 * You should just be linking to the images like so…
 * Basic example::
    `<img src="images/yourimage.jpg" alt="alternate text" title="
   image title" />`

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## Tags

 * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/)
 * [Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/themes/)

 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-a-theme/#post-989205)
 * Status: not resolved

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