Title: Stylesheet Problem Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Stylesheet Problem * Resolved [johnhds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnhds/) * (@johnhds) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/) * I downloaded and ftp’d the un-zipped files (in tact) to my server. I went and logged in to my blog. Under ‘presentations’ an opened ‘themes’. Under ‘available themes’ I saw the listings of the new downloaded themes and all are listed ‘style sheet is missing’ on all 4. I checked my host files and the sheets are there. Nothing was left out of the ftp transfer. What happend and how do I fix it. ( I downloaded these files 2x and the same thing happened each time). Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 31 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439615) * Make sure that each theme is only one folder-level deep. In each theme folder you should see the files and an images folder, not another named folder with all of those in it…. * [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439620) * It could also be that whoever created the theme didn’t out the proper stuff in the top if the stylesheet. For WordPress to pick up the theme, you *have* to have something like this at the very top: * /* Theme Name: Theme URI: Description: Author: Author URI: */ * That *has* to be there. Otherwise, WordPress won’t pick it up as the default stylesheet, and it’ll tell you that the stylesheet is missing. * Thread Starter [johnhds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnhds/) * (@johnhds) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439663) * I checked the files and they are one level and all have a stylesheet. The templates are ‘3689’, ’49’ and ‘1143’ I downloaded them from themes.wordpress.com * I prefer 1143 but don’t know what to do next? * [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439719) * Do your stylesheets have something like what I meantioned in the top of them? That has to be there for it to recognize the stylesheet and apply it… * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439720) * Well, if he’s looking at themes from themes.wordpress.net, I doubt that’s the problem. * He posted themes.wordpress.com; that site’s long gone. I couldn’t get themes. wordpress.net to give me results for the numbers he gave…. * Names might work better. * Thread Starter [johnhds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnhds/) * (@johnhds) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439774) * The names are 1024px, indigo and mistylook. * Thread Starter [johnhds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnhds/) * (@johnhds) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439775) * I checked the style sheets and they have the /* */ with name, url, desc, author, author url. Don’t know if anything else might be missing. * [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439833) * well, so much for my idea 🙂 * I just know when that’s happened to me, that’s always what the problem is! * Sorry I couldn’t help out more 🙂 * [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439834) * [Maybe this will help?](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development) There’s a section about theme stylesheets around the middle of the page… * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439836) * I just downloaded mistylook, unzipped, and checked it. It’s set up as it should be, so maybe there’s something else going on here. * JohnHDS, are you doing something in the nature of a subdomain or something? What’s the link to the site with the problem? * Thread Starter [johnhds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnhds/) * (@johnhds) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439843) * I think you want: [http://homedesignsense.com/blog](http://homedesignsense.com/blog) * [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/) * (@yosemite) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439851) * Finally, a link. * You have them in subdirectories. * _I checked the files and they are one level _ * Wrong: wp-content/themes/indigo/indigo/ is not one level. * Thread Starter [johnhds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnhds/) * (@johnhds) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439877) * OK. What should I do now? * [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/) * (@doodlebee) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439885) * get rid of the extra “indigo” folder. Move the files up one level. * Thread Starter [johnhds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnhds/) * (@johnhds) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/#post-439897) * OK. I removed all the other files and re-uploaded just ‘connections’ and ‘1024px’ They were loaded into wp-content/templates as in the instructions. Is this correct? If so, they are not working or I am really very confused. * Where should the files be ftp’d if they are still in the wrong place? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 31 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Stylesheet Problem’ is closed to new replies. * 31 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [hexden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hexden/) * Last activity: [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-problem/page/3/#post-440163) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics