Title: Theme “Template Missing”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme “Template Missing”

 *  [cohenmiller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cohenmiller/)
 * (@cohenmiller)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-template-missing/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-template-missing/#post-1038948)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cohenmiller/)
 * (@cohenmiller)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-template-missing/#post-1039111)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dk20/)
 * (@dk20)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-template-missing/#post-1039116)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dk20/)
 * (@dk20)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-template-missing/#post-1039117)
 * Sorry, previous post posted in wrong place.

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 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [dk20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dk20/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-template-missing/#post-1039117)
 * Status: not resolved

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