Themes don’t work

  • Resolved wopsr

    (@wopsr)


    19 years, 6 months ago

    (Moved from the wrong forum. Sorry.)

    There are a bunch of threads here that deal with people having problems with themes. I’ve read them all, and none of them address my problem.

    None of my WP pages are formatting. At all. No matter what theme I pick, the pages return basically as unformatted plain black text on white background. I have noticed that the order in which things appear sometimes changes when I change themes, but other than that, there is no discernable difference between themes, and the page is ugly as sin.

    Thumbnail previews of themes do not appear in the admin page. The admin page is just as ugly and unformatted as the main page.

    I’m running Windows Server 2003 SP1 (IIS 6), MySQL Server 5.0.24a, and PHP 5.1.6.

    You can view the page here: wopsr.net

    EDIT: Never mind. Always works that way. You fuss with something for 6 hours, finally decide to ask for help, and the very next thing you do fixes it. For future reference, host masking is evil.

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  • qofe

    (@qofe)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Can you tell me what you did to fix this? I just uploaded to WordPress 2.1.2 and have the same exact problem.

    I’ve changed chmod to 755 for the theme folders/contents, I’ve cleared my cache…

    I’m at a loss…

    damonic

    (@damonic)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    I’m having the same issue and can’t find a resolution at all. In fact, this is the only post I’ve read that addresses the issue.

    I’ve uploaded all the WP files on a new host with a new database. I ran the install but I thought it looked strange – there were blue boxes where the images should be. i thought somthing just changed since I had installed WP on my old host. There were no errors during the install – just no images – plain text on a white background.

    After install the web page shows the content as text – still no images. the admin is all text too. I switched themes – no change.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    19 years, 1 month ago

    If you have the wrong values on the Options->General page for Site and WordPress URL’s, then you can have this sort of thing occur. Correct those incorrect values. You can’t just make them anything you please, they must be the actual correct URLs of your site.

    damonic

    (@damonic)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    The URLs look correct to me. And I think the issue may not just affect my site. When I go to a WP page of someone else, I see this: http://www.damonic.net/screenshot/screenshot_01.jpg

    What do you see when you go to his site? http://interknox.net/wordpress/

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    19 years, 1 month ago

    I see the same thing, but his stylesheet link is incorrect as well. It’s not pointing to the theme directory. It just points to “style.css”, which is incorrect because it’s not a fully qualified URI. A theme’s stylesheet should be specified like so (in the theme’s header.php file):
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

    Anyway, if your URLs look correct, but you’re not getting the style, then I’d say you either have a very broken theme or a very broken wordpress installation.

    damonic

    (@damonic)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Even the default theme does not work. The weird thing is that when I went to /wp-admin/wp-install.php there were no images displayed on the page – just the text on a white background.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Then I’d say that you have a very broken wordpress installation. Or some kind of weird server interference.

    Reload all the WordPress files onto the box and remove any unusual .htaccess stuff you have there.

    damonic

    (@damonic)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Thats the other thing I’ve noticed while reading these posts. My host (TextDrive) does not have any .htaccess files on the server. I’ve chosen to view all hidden files and it isn’t there. Could that be the problem?

    Update: I’ve posed these questions to my host…

    qofe

    (@qofe)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    What I found was that it was in fact the CHMOD settings. The original ftp client I used was not applying my CHMOD changes… for whatever reason.

    I changed ftp clients, re-did CHMOD and it was all good.

    damonic

    (@damonic)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Well, I changed the CHMOD settings and re-installed. The installation graphics and the admin pages look correct but when I view the site it is still just text on a white background. That seems to be at least part of the problem. I will keep trying. We’ll see what happens when I change the settings back…

    Thanks for your help.

    damonic

    (@damonic)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    I figured it out. It seems like the files I had originally downloaded were messed up. I re-downloaded WP, changed the CHMOD to 777 to install, uploaded the files using TEXT mode, and everything seems to be working.

    qofe

    (@qofe)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Also — beware of browser cache issues… you may have been looking at cached copies of your pages. Sometimes the reload/refresh button works but it’s usually best to clear your web browser’s cache, close it, re-open and then reload the page(s).

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