How to get custom theme to show up in Admin Panel?

  • I am trying to create a custom theme so my blog will look like my website. I created customized index.php, css and images, put them in a folder on my server in the themes section.

    Is there something else I need to do to them to get it to show up in the Admin panel?

    thank you,

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  • And compared to other working themes in your install, what is different in your stylesheet?
    Why not just compare the top portions of the css files?

    more: Theme_Development

    Thread Starter rcronin

    (@rcronin)

    Hi! Thank you for responding! I’m actually using your tutorial to do this. I’m a little clueless with PHP, so I was guessing that was the problem.

    Is a problem in the style sheet going to prevent my theme from showing up in my admin section?

    Thank you, Becky

    Thread Starter rcronin

    (@rcronin)

    I can’t see anything in my style sheet that is different from the default one…

    Nooope. Has nothing to do (yet) with being able or unable to understand or code PHP. It has everything to do with how WP identifies themes.

    Go back to the link that moshu pointed you to and read down to where it says Theme Style Sheet and read very closely what the instructions say. The fact that you can’t see anything different in your stylesheet and the default one IS the problem.

    Thread Starter rcronin

    (@rcronin)

    thank you. I will go look at that right now and see if I can figure it out. ??

    Good. Come back and revive this thread if you’re still having problems. ??

    We’re not trying to give you more of a headache, I swear, but in all honesty, if you really want to learn to theme WP on your own, you need a good understanding of how theming works for WP and that includes what makes the theme show up in your Admin theme selector.

    … One last question, though:

    You said you created customized files and have them all in a folder, yes?

    Did you copy pre-existing files from a pre-existing theme or did you actually completely write new files for your theme from scratch?

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