I am in a desperate position and need help!!!!

  • I am hoping that you can help me.
    I have spend days and days trying to upload a free wordpress theme (downloaded from the web) onto my database newly hosted by Dreamhost. Following all the directions Dreamhost/Wordpress recommends, I cannot accomplish this. The steps I took were:
    1. Downloaded a theme called BlueSense and extracted the files on my computer
    2. Used dreamhost’s recommended webftp program to download to my website. The parameters I used was:

    FTP Username: myuserame
    FTP Password: mypw
    FTP Server: dreamhost server
    Directory Tree /mydomain.com/wp-content

    Then I executed the upload button and everything seemed to successfully be uploaded…..HOWEVER, this theme is nowhere in my available themes (in WordPress) and when I log in to my website, I get the msg
    “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/beachguru/matchagreenteapowderinfo.com/index.php on line 1”

    Also, how do I actually look at and access wp-content file on my database?

    Could you please give me step by step directions (NOT the ones already online (I’ve followed them a million times)) on how to install this wordpress theme and allow it to work? I am begging you……………thanks in advance!

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  • Don’t know how to make this simpler, but it sounds like you uploaded the theme to root instead of wp-content/themes/ and the theme’s index.php overwrote wordpress’s index.php

    If so, you need to replace wordpress’s index.php, delete the other theme files and then upload the theme to the right directory.

    Thread Starter beachguru

    (@beachguru)

    The directions said to upload it to mydomain.com/wp-content. What directory do you think I should have uploaded everything to? And how can I correct what’s now there? (As I’m sure you can tell, I am a newbie at WordPress and FTP transfers)Thanks

    videos that explain how and where to upload a wordpress theme:

    https://www.village-idiot.org/theme-howto

    Themes go in mydomain.com/wp-content/themes/

    But it looks like you have more serious troubles, as I pointed out above, checking to see if you overwrote needed wordpress files.

    Thread Starter beachguru

    (@beachguru)

    Songdogtech,
    How do I see if I overwrote them…what do I look for…and how do I correct them? Thanks for your assistance!

    Open index.php in root, and this is what you should see:

    <?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>

    If you see that, then upload your theme to mydomain.com/wp-content/themes/ and try it again.

    If you don’t see the above code, but see code that begins <?php get_header(); ?> then – to make it simple – you need to reupload wordpress.

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