Themes missing in Admin Panel

I should add that the new themes aren’t double-directory listed. The style.css file is in /wp-content/themes/<theme>/

Make sure the contents of the theme are correct. Sometimes I’ve downloaded themes that didn’t have the correct contents (bad link or something possibly on the website’s part). If even one file is missing it won’t show up in Dashboard.

Also try downloading another new theme from a totally different site and see if this theme works.

The above should help…

I downloaded two more themes from a different site. Still no new themes appear on the admin panel.

Do you have a way to check the contents are correct? I have a hard time believing that five different themes have incorrect contents. This is making me crazy.

What is your blog address?

https://www.davisondesigns.net

Could there be something with permissions/ownership of the files? Does it matter who owns them?

theres nothing wrong with your permissions, or the ownership, as far as I can tell.

https://www.davisondesigns.net/wp-content/themes/nutone/style.css

make sure theyre all like that one.

the index.php files throw blank pages but thats normal actually since calling that file directly is going to spit out an error, and this server obviously has error reporting turned off, which is a good thing, btw.

That nutone theme is one of the ones that doesn’t work…

I’m glad you told me it’s good error reporting is off, since I wouldn’t have known otherwise, heh.

dalkinn…
i too am having this problem… did you get it solved, if so, please share the solution! it’s kind of frustrating.

5thward, you do not have the same problem, and Ive addressed your issue in your thread.

Anyone have any other ideas to try? For kicks I tried giving the themes full permissions (777) but that didn’t do anything different. The two that wordpress comes with have limited permissions anyway, but I thought it was worth a try.

I don’t think it matters, but I installed wordpress via yum, rather than the download. I might try deleting and installing via the download, but I don’t see why it would matter.

Anyone else have an idea? I see in the last few days there have been a few similar threads, but they were all unzipping/directory issues, not similar to mine.

Shameless bump ??

Okay, while I think everyone’s given up on this, I did find a solution, though I’m not certain of the cause. I reinstalled with yum (doing a remove, deleting all my web files, then reinstall) and reset the databases just to find the same issue.

After that, I deleted the web files again and downloaded the zip and installed that way. The themes showed up. As far as I know, the only difference between the two methods is that yum will locate the files in /usr/share which need to be copied, but the more notable difference is that the wp-config.php file is located in /etc/wordpress instead of the root web directory.

After the themes were working, I decided to set up the symbolic link to the /etc/wordpress location again, but after doing so I lost all the additional themes in the panel. After I realized that broke theme selection, I returned it to its original condition. This still didn’t fix it, so I just reinstalled the downloaded file one last time and I’ll leave it as such.

It leads me to suspect there’s something with the symbolic link to the config file that is causing the issue, but it could be something with linux permissions, pathing, or even a bug. Removing the symbolic link should have fixed any of those issue if that were the case, so it could easily be something else causing the issue.

I’m going to go ahead and tag this thread as resolved, but I do think that someone should look further into the difference between the yum installed and downloaded versions. I could find very little information on this site regarding yum installation, so perhaps it’s unusual or atypical that WordPress would be installed that way. However, since it is possible, it would probably be worth mentioning, even if this is the only difference between the two.

the yum install of what?

Im not finding any wordpress package in any yum repo.

but I do think that someone should look further into the difference between the yum installed and downloaded versions.

That said, if there is one, the responsibility for any package differences or install differences rests on the person or people that are maintaining the repo, not anyone here.

The yum install of wordpress. It’s included on the Fedora Discs… certainly 9, but I think it was on 8 as well.

That said, if there is one, the responsibility for any package differences or install differences rests on the person or people that are maintaining the repo, not anyone here.

My comment was not really directed toward you or anyone in particular, but intended more as a caution for others that decide to install WordPress that way. There is also the small chance that the individuals responsible for that package might be around and read these forums.