“The Requested Theme Does Not Exist”

gmanzione
(@gmanzione)

17 years, 9 months ago

I have a WordsPress blog at http://flbooktours.com/ using 2.5.1 and the “Books & Imagination” theme by qualitywordpress.com. I am trying to use the theme editor to edit the theme in order to use WordPress as a CMS rather than a blogging tool, and while I was able to do this with ease in 2.3.3, every time I edit something in the theme editor–such as the page template–I get a “The requested theme does not exist” error message after clicking “update file.” This leaves me in the frustrating and helpless position of being totally unable to edit my theme in any way whatsoever.

I realize that the ampersand in the theme name may be part of the problem, but even when I edit out the ampersand or change it to an “and” I STILL get the “the requested theme does not exist” error message after clicking “update file.”

Can someone please help me understand how to edit my theme in 2.5.1? Thanks in advance!

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Thread Starter gmanzione
(@gmanzione)

17 years, 9 months ago

bump

drewactual
(@drewactual)

17 years, 9 months ago

permissions dude… check the permissions as the first step.

iamnickarmstrong
(@iamnickarmstrong)

17 years, 2 months ago

sorry for the double-post
iamnickarmstrong
(@iamnickarmstrong)

17 years, 2 months ago
Your stylesheet.css probably had something like this at the top:
```
/*
Theme Name: Theme Name
Theme URI: http://www.whitehouse.org
Description: Theme Description
Version: 2.0.8
Author: Author Name
Author URI: http://www.whitehouse.org
*/
```
If you remove this information, WordPress can’t detect what theme it is and it generates this error.

The solution is to restore the original style.css (or wherever the lines that look like the ones above were), select a different theme from the appearance menu, activate it, then re-activate your original theme. It seemed to work for me.

-Nick
PsychoticResumes.com
aristotelis
(@aristotelis)

17 years ago

I had the same problem and thanks to your post above, I decided to have a closer look at the information on the top of my style.css and … what do I see? Right next to the theme name the author used the symbol & in “Photo & Design” and of course as soon as I changed it back to “Photo and Design” the theme was recognizable and editable! Those little tiny symbols in php environments can cause a catastrophe!

dezzzign
(@dezzzign)

17 years ago

Thanks, iamnickarmstrong. I had the problem and solved it with that trick.

ptlafferty
(@ptlafferty)

16 years, 10 months ago

iamnickarmstrong, you bring the peace of mind! This has been driving me nuts. The thing is, I have no recollection of ever changing the title of the theme in style.css.

Result! Huzzah!