Adding Themes

  • I’ve managed to get our blog set up at https://blog.corexcel.com/ but I’m having a tough time getting new themes installed. I’ve ftp’d 2 themes to the same location as the default and classic theme but they don’t show up in the design area of the dashboard. The theme files are located at /public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/. I downloaded the zip files, extracted the files and slid the entire folder over to the web server using WS_FTP. Not sure what else I need to do.

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  • Well, you need to be sure they aren’t in nested directories. That sometimes happens with both plugins and themes. So make sure you have this:
    https://yourcooldomain.com/wp-content/themes/yourcooltheme/

    and not this:

    https://yourcooldomain.com/wp-content/themes/yourcooltheme/yourcooltheme/

    Make sense? Otherwise, I cannot imagine why the themes aren’t showing up where they are supposed to.

    Thread Starter dfbfloyd

    (@dfbfloyd)

    I just checked the directory structure and it’s set up as /public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/pop-blue/list of the .php theme files along with an images directory.

    What does it say in the WP Dashboard? At the bottom it probably should talk about missing theme files? I simply cannot imagine why they are not showing up then. ??

    Thread Starter dfbfloyd

    (@dfbfloyd)

    That’s what has me stumped. It doesn’t say anything about missing theme files, it just lists the Default and Classic themes. Everything else seems to be working fine so I believe the installation was done right.

    I just checked the directory structure and it’s set up as /public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/pop-blue/list of the .php theme files along with an images directory.

    https://blog.corexcel.com/wp-content/themes/pop-blue/

    results in a 404.

    its related to how you have your subdomain set up, or where you are placing the files, or something since this works

    https://www.corexcel.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/pop-blue/

    I’ve read the instructions on adding themes, which says this
    “upload the new folder (with the files left inside) to the themes directory of your blog, which is located within the wp content directory.”

    wp content > themes

    where is wp content directory and how do i get to it?

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