Title: Technical problem with themes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Technical problem with themes

 *  [aprylchapmanthomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aprylchapmanthomas/)
 * (@aprylchapmanthomas)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-problem-with-themes/)
 * Recently (late this afternoon), I downloaded Love the Orange, Nightly and Simple
   Blog 2 themes. Unzipped them and uploaded theme through my FTP. Everything went
   well. Yet, when I’m on the theme page of WordPress and click on one of those 
   themes mentioned above, I get the following message:
 * Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/content/a/p/r/aprylchth/
   html/wordpress/index.php on line 1
 * I have no idea what this means, if it can be resolved and more importantly, how
   to resolve it.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-problem-with-themes/#post-1018777)
 * > I have no idea what this means
 * it means you didnt upload the themes to the right directory — instead, you uploaded
   them to the “root” (where your wp-config.php is) of your wordpress install. When
   you did that, you overwrote the index.php that is normally found in that directory.
 * You need to put back the index.php that is supposed to be there, and put your
   theme files in their proper directories. You probably also want to delete all
   the theme files you uploaded to that aforementioned root directory, as well, 
   since it will no doubt confuse you to leave them there.
 * For a video on uploading themes:
 * [http://www.village-idiot.org/theme-howto](http://www.village-idiot.org/theme-howto)
 * Lastly, nearly every theme and plugin comes with a readme file of some kind. 
   Theyre called readme files because they’re intended to be read.

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 * Last reply from: [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-problem-with-themes/#post-1018777)
 * Status: not resolved

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