Title: “Stylesheet missing” message
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# “Stylesheet missing” message

 *  [vampykins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vampykins/)
 * (@vampykins)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-missing-message/)
 * I was adding some themes to my dir but when logging into the dashboard to activate
   them I get a message “Stylesheet missing.”
 * When I checked the file manager the file IS in fact there. I even reloaded it
   thinking I might have forgotten to change the ascii/binary mode when uploading.
   I tried changing mods. The file is there. How come wp can’t see the style.css
   file? What am I missing?

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-missing-message/#post-202037)
 * Which version? If you’re still in pre-1.5, WP doesn’t use themes, just templates….
 *  [kttygoesrawr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kttygoesrawr/)
 * (@kttygoesrawr)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-missing-message/#post-202040)
 * I got that same message, for some reason. All I did was reupload the theme and
   then it suddenly began working.
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-missing-message/#post-202088)
 * Sometimes if you upload a file over another, instead of deleting the first and
   then uploading the new, it just doesn’t quite…work. I hate it, but that happens.
   I can go months without a problem and then suddenly, there it is. So much for
   trust 😉
 *  Thread Starter [vampykins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vampykins/)
 * (@vampykins)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-missing-message/#post-202123)
 * I figured it out! The same thing I overlooked when installing wp the first time
   around. I had the theme files in an extra directory. In other words it was like
   this (example):
 * classic > classic > themefileshere
 * I just deleted them and put them under one directory:
 * classic>themefileshere
 * WordPress couldn’t find the file because it was stuck in another directory. The
   simplest solutions are the most headaches *laugh*

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 * [style.css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/style-css/)
 * [Stylesheet](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/stylesheet/)

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-missing-message/#post-202123)
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