Add new theme: An unexpected error occurred

  • Hi everyone,
    I KNOW there are several Topics that have discussed this already, but I have to admit I’m COMPLETELY new to blogging and installing wordpress on my domain, so I wanted to ask all those software savvy people here to dumb it dowm for me… my problem is the following: I installed WP and then I wanted to change my theme. The following error occured:
    “An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with www.remarpro.com or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums.”
    Now, I tried the easy solution suggestions that other received (its not my site URL, I think), but they don’t work. I’m not comfortable to configure it on your wp-config.php, as someone suggested, since I’m really atotal beginner and am afraid to ruin my newly installed website.
    Does anyone have any ideas what to do, given the – admittedly – super thin information on the problem I am able to provide?
    Thanks so so much, and sorry for this newby-post!
    Cheers, Jenn

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  • Try:
    – switching to the default theme automatically by renaming your current theme’s folder inside wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and the wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    pdoc

    (@pdoc)

    Hi,
    Just my two cents to try to help, and maybe to report a possible bug:
    I am installing wordpress 4.4.2.
    I am using the same zip file downloaded from wordpress, that had worked perfectly few weeks ago.
    Also this time, the installation seemed to be ok.
    Besides that , at the time to search for new themes to install, I had the very same problem reported by RITNB.
    I opened the file themes/index.php and noticed that it was like:

    <?php
// Silence is golden.

    So it was missing the closing “?>” at the end.

    I added that so that now it is:

    <?php
// Silence is golden.
?>

    This solved the problem.

    Strange as it may seem, a previou installations in other directories of the same server also generated the “incomplete” themes/install.php, but in that case I had no problem in adding new themes… I am confused at this point ??

    Hope this helps,
    Regards.

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