Ground Up…theme won’t load

  • seancoopergmailcom

    (@seancoopergmailcom)


    19 years ago

    Hi Everyone

    I started to do my own theme from the ground up.

    I downloaded the index, page, style, and sidebar pages. I saved them in a new folder and then uploaded them (FTP) to my site. I see them in my wordpress dashboard.

    So far I basically just changed some basic stuff like the background and text. When I update file it says file updated sucessfully. But when I preview the site, it’s still the default page.

    Am I missing a glaringly obvious option to make sure it’s using my new folder/index/etc. for the site and not the default. any help is greatly appreciated.

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  • sadish

    (@sadish)

    you should also change the style.css. right at the first few lines of the style.css, you would see some commented area where it says the name of the theme, author name etc.

    give your new theme a name, by editing the style.css top portion, and update it.

    and then select a different theme and then come back to your own theme.

    lets see if it works.

    Thread Starter seancoopergmailcom

    (@seancoopergmailcom)

    I updated the styles.css page with anything that would be my name, design, etc. as opposed to the default. It still goes back to the default page though. This occurs even when I have my theme selected from the drop down menu.

    sadish

    (@sadish)

    I think someone has to work with you, to really understand whats going on. contact me offline at my website. let us see if we can meet online at some convenient timings.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter seancoopergmailcom

    (@seancoopergmailcom)

    sadish…thanks a ton for your help. my aim is seancooper and my email is [email protected]. let me know what works for you and I’ll be available. many thanks.

    Thread Starter seancoopergmailcom

    (@seancoopergmailcom)

    Sadish, after a few clean installs I was able to figure it out. Thanks for your time though.

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