Theme “Template Missing”

  • cohenmiller

    (@cohenmiller)


    15 years ago

    Howdy. I’ve been messing with creating my own theme for my site for wordpress. I’ve got the requisite “style.css”. “index.php”, “sidebar.php”, “header.php” and “footer.php”. In the site admin area when I go to “apperance > Themes” I can choose between the two default themes, and there is a message at the bottom of the page reads: “Broken Themes” and then below that says Name, Description, and under those are the name of my theme, and the description of “Template is missing.”

    I can pass along my files for people to examine, but as of now I have no idea what the problem is.

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    15 years ago

    Look at the file style.css in any WordPress theme. At the top of it you will see a comments area that has certain text fields in it. You need to copy that header into your stylesheet, and change the information to be relevant to you and your design. WordPress gets the info on theme name and author by reading that header info from every folder in the themes folder. When you add it to your stylesheet WordPress will be picking up your info too.

    Thread Starter cohenmiller

    (@cohenmiller)

    15 years ago

    Thanks! that’s exactly what I found it to be. I had mis-typed that info. I wish that the codex better handled this part of the css sheet. This fairly crucial aspect of the theme is relegated to very difficult to find the answer to status for the newbie!

    dk20

    (@dk20)

    15 years ago

    I have same problem: I’ve uploaded multiple themes, which show up in themes folder alongside default and classic folders, but which do not appear on themes page of dashboard. Thank you.

    dk20

    (@dk20)

    15 years ago

    Sorry, previous post posted in wrong place.

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