Title: Uploading custom theme
Last modified: March 19, 2017

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# Uploading custom theme

 *  [richardthegardenninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardthegardenninja/)
 * (@richardthegardenninja)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/)
 * Hello,
    I’ve got WordPress GoDaddy Hosting since I’ve had a custom theme designed
   for us. I’m trying to upload the theme by going to [http://www.richardthegardenninja.co.uk/wp-admin](http://www.richardthegardenninja.co.uk/wp-admin)
   and then themes > Add New > Upload > Selecting the Zip File > Upload.
 * When I Click on Install Theme the website just hangs with the blue bar starting
   to load and then hanging? Anyone help me here?
 * Thanks, Tom

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 *  [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * (@sinip)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/#post-8931135)
 * How big is zip file?
 *  Thread Starter [richardthegardenninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardthegardenninja/)
 * (@richardthegardenninja)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/#post-8931153)
 * 64mb – If thats too big whats the alternative way’s to upload?
 *  [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * (@sinip)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/#post-8931302)
 * 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.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/).
 *  Thread Starter [richardthegardenninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardthegardenninja/)
 * (@richardthegardenninja)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/#post-8931867)
 * 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?
 *  [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * (@sinip)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/#post-8932014)
 * 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](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.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/#post-8932034)
 * 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…
 *  [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * (@sinip)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/#post-8932063)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [richardthegardenninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardthegardenninja/)
 * (@richardthegardenninja)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/#post-8932080)
 * 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.
 *  [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * (@sinip)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-custom-theme-4/#post-8932140)
 * Glad to hear. And don’t expect the theme to work fully until you fully FTP all
   the files. And don’t miss anything. 😉

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