Can’t get theme to show

  • Hi, I’m having problems displaying a theme. I’ve uploaded k2 to my theme’s folder but its not showing up as there in my wordpress dashboard. Anyone know why this might be and how to fix it? website address is citizenjake.com. I’ve tried uploading k2 several times and am now getting quite frustrated, any help would be much appreciated.

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  • Whenever you upload your theme what are the permissions. Have a look here to see what I’m saying. If your web server can’t see the files then wordpress can’t see the files.

    Thread Starter jgk1013

    (@jgk1013)

    the k2 folder itself is set at 755. I have another installation of wordpress running on a different blog, thesportsnote.com and it works fine over there (same permissions and everything) but on citizenjake.com i get nothing. still having problems with this, any help much appreciated.

    your page is blank .. thats because there is a problem with k2 and you have removed the default theme.

    I know this because I browsed your themes directory last night

    https://citizenjake.com/wp-content/themes/

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    Best I can tell you have k2 installed properly — atleast you appear to have uploaded the files correctly.

    I was running into this same issue recently. The exception to my situation is that I’m running a local installation of WordPress using MAMP and was unable to see the changes that I had made to a template after copy/pasting the source files into a newly created theme directory. My first inclination was that it was a permissions issue, but after verifying that all the files had read/write privileges, I was stumped. After reviewing both sets of files and going back and forth between Dreamweaver and my WP-Admin folder, I discovered that in order for WP to “see” your theme, you must have the description information in your CSS file be different than any other theme in the themes folder. Because I just duplicated it and essentially renamed the directory, it wasn’t able to parse it as a new theme. The solution for me was to go into the styles.css file and supply unique descriptive info. Here’s what you need to edit:

    /*
Theme Name:
Theme URI:
Description:
Version:
Author:
Author URI:
*/

    In your case, you may just need to insure that your CSS file contains this information. WordPress apparently uses this information to define your theme in the admin area. Without it (or having is as a duplicate like I did) causes it not to be able to identify your theme.

    Give it a shot and let me know how it works out. It worked for me once I realized what was going on.

    – Anthony

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