64mb – If thats too big whats the alternative way’s to upload?
That’s waaaaaaaaay too big.
You have to use FTP to upload unzipped content into wp-content/themes/your_theme_name
Then just go to your WP dashboard Appearance->Themes and it should be there.
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This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by
sinip.
Thanks. So I’ve tried uploading via FTP but when I go into Themes to select the Theme it says:
Broken Themes: Stylesheet is missing.
I’ve tried googling it to see what I’m doing wrong but anything mentioned I’ve done but still no joy.
Help please?
Well, there are two possible reasons.
Either the theme is really broken or you didn’t upload everything.
So, lets check first option. When you unzip the theme on your hard drive, there should be a folder with the theme name and inside it there should be a file named style.css. If your theme name is my_custom_theme then the path to the file has to be my_custom_theme/style.css It must have certain content, see https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Theme_Stylesheet
Then you will usually have another folder inside, named css, with the additional files in it, but that one in the root is a must.
If you have it on your local drive and it has valid content doublecheck to see if you’ve uploaded it to your hosting.
consider to contact the creator of your theme for help with the uploading – the zip file may contain more than just the theme’s folder…
He probably has all the pics and text bundled with the theme, but that shouldn’t be a problem if he FTP’s everything to the proper place.
I’m starting to get somewhere now. So I FTP’d the files you mentioned style.css and the file CSS and it’s shown in the themes section, but it’s not complete there bits missing like link and pics etc so just FTP’ing the other files over a bit at a time.
Glad to hear. And don’t expect the theme to work fully until you fully FTP all the files. And don’t miss anything. 😉
