CasparV
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Hi again Ivan,
That second hyperlink in your previous post to the WordPress page that is supposed to tell me about how to add a new theme doesn’t work and it just takes me to the Support Forums homepage – any ideas about that, please?
Many thanks,
CasparHi Ivan,
Thanks for that – it all makes sense. My trouble is being a newbie and not knowing how to fill in the gaps!
Do I still need to do anything about screenshot.png that you mentioned in your previous post? I can imagine maybe adding screenshot.png to your zip file before I upload it, but maybe that’s not needed? What would happen if I didn’t, would it just pick up the default image from twentythirteen, which I am assuming is how it gets all of the other required files? And then is that image what you see when you browse the installed themes within wp-admin Administration Screen? And otherwise it doesn’t appear anywhere when you actually use that theme? Or am I being naive again?!
Many thanks for all of your guidance,
CasparUpdate from yesterday: I read another thread and discovered that I go into wp-admin and then choose Appearance and then Editor and look for footer.php in the listing on the right. So now I know how to change an existing footer!
For the record and to help others: what I was doing wrong was to try and edit the actual file saved on my local drive at ..\wordpress\wp-content\themes\twentythirteen\footer.php
However I still haven’t worked out how to get that new Theme. I can now see (told you I was a newbie!) that you can Upload one in zip format – is that how to do it? If so, do you zip the files only, or do you zip the folder complete with the files in it? Or is that all wrong and there is something else I should be doing, please?
Many thanks,
CasparHi Ivan,
Thank you very much for your help.
I tried both of your suggestions and sadly got nowhere.
Deleting those lines made no difference, although ideally I would like to change the text and the hyperlink (which looks easy in principle).
I unzipped your zip file and ended up with 3 files called footer.php, functions.php and style.css in ..\wordpress\wp-content\themes\2013-child-master. I then added an image called screenshot.png, like you said, but when I go into Themes it still doesn’t show it (although I can still add more from online).
Like I said before, no doubt I am doing something stupid, but it seems like it should be simple to me and yet it just isn’t! GRRRR!
Many thanks,
Caspar