New to WP, themes not working…

  • I just installed WP on my web host (CrystalTech). I got it working, but had to make some changes in order for content to show up.

    I don’t get any theme, and any themes I have in the theme directory don’t show up.

    I’ve got the https://www.myhost.com/blog set as the directory to post new content to (as opposed to /wp-content, as that wasn’t putting any content to my blog), and I have a themes directory under both there and the /wp-content directory. But when I look at the themes selection, it says that my theme is the WordPress theme and it is located ‘ ‘ and ‘ ‘, both which are blank.

    I’m really new to all this, so if someone can point me as to where I went wrong, I would appreciate it. I used the ‘5 minute setup’ on my host.

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  • Leave alone the wp-content directory! There should be only 2 subdirs: plugins and themes. You should upload ALL your themes in their own directories under “themes”, like
    yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/theme-name/
    Delete the “themes” directory from the blog.

    I’ve noticed that you don’t have a link to a stylesheet in your head section in https://www.myhomeoffice.org/blog/. If you log into your admin panel and select presentation, are you seeing any themes available there?

    That would certainly make it difficult to have a stylesheet pulled in. Can’t reel in the big one if you forgot the fishing line.

    Thread Starter mikestrock

    (@mikestrock)

    If I log into my admin panel, it does show me themes. But it says that my stylesheet is missing. Where would I add that in order for it to take effect?

    I’d put everything back the way it was when first installed or re-install. Then ask how to get it working properly. It may have just been a chmod issue but who knows what it is now?

    Thread Starter mikestrock

    (@mikestrock)

    I just did a re-install. I do see themes and I can activate theme, but when I active a theme, it tells me that:

    Name Description
    musings-from-my-home-office Stylesheet is missing.

    I tried to use one of the default themes, but it still shows the above.

    I did delete my /blog/ directory and do a complete re-install.

    I’d try it with a fresh download.
    Just out of curiousity, check if you have this line in your header.php of the themes:
    <style type="text/css" media="screen">
    @import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
    </style>

    Thread Starter mikestrock

    (@mikestrock)

    Yes I do have that line in each of the header.php in each of the theme directories on the server.

    do you have this file?

    wp-content\themes\default\style.css

    -or-

    wp-content\themes\classic\style.css

    Thread Starter mikestrock

    (@mikestrock)

    Yes that file is in all the themes directories.

    Thread Starter mikestrock

    (@mikestrock)

    I give up. I’m going to delete everything, and do a complete re-install after re-downloading it. Not sure what I did to screw it up, but whatever.

    Thank you to those folks who attempted to help me.

    Thread Starter mikestrock

    (@mikestrock)

    Completely new download, completely new install, same problem. Maybe WP is not for me….argh

    Hang on…

    [Snip] Irrelevant due to nest post.

    Thread Starter mikestrock

    (@mikestrock)

    I did a re-install completely. I used the wordpress directory instead of blog. when I go to https://www.myhomeoffice.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/default/style.css, it shows up in my browser.

    OK, post the code that is in the index file in the “wordpress” directory and what you have set for wordpress address and blog address in Options. You probably still have the address as “blog”

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