Theme changes are not visible?

Where are you editing it, then? The back end and uploading via FTP?

Are you sure you’re editing the right theme, too?

and are you using a caching plugin?

Silly question, but you are using multisite, yes? If so, are the themes network activated, or activated for the site in question?

I use multiuser, yes. My theme is activated, but when I edit the source file in wp-content/themes/dummy the changes are not visible in the theme editor neither are they on the website. I do not use any caching plugins and did not find any hint, that wordpress has a caching engine of its own.

2nd: When uploading a new theme to the themes-dir, I am not able to activate it through the “Network Themes”-tab. Maybe there were some significant changes on the theme structure as this one is quite minimal using just one php and one css?

forgot to mention: I do use ftp upload to edit. And the right file is on the server, when I download it again its the edit!

And: I didnt know there is a difference between theme activation on different pages? I thought you can only generally allow themes to ever site?

Is it a child theme of another theme?

2nd: When uploading a new theme to the themes-dir, I am not able to activate it through the “Network Themes”-tab.

that does not activate theme themes – it *enables* it for use on the sub sites.

you must then go to a subsite and visit the Appearance menu and activate the theme so it shows on the front side of that blog.

Maybe there were some significant changes on the theme structure as this one is quite minimal using just one php and one css?

Go test it on a single install.

@ipstenu: I rewrote it from scratch

@andrea: Ok, yes I enabled it for the network and activated it on the subsite, but when I upload the updated version of the page, wordpress does not take over the code.

Single Install is working flawlessly

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As far as I can see its not a problem of the code, but of the installation, which does not re-read the theme folder and the themes… I simply don’t know why it does not.

Insofar as that goes, MultiSite and SingleSite read theme folders exactly the same way.

I rewrote it from scratch

Just because I’ve done this… You don’t happen to have TWO themes with the same name via style.css do you?

nope… just looked that up

Rewinding to this…

neither am I able to edit the code in theme editor or to activate new themes.

The theme editor won’t work unless the files are 755 or 777 (I forget which, I never use it).

Activating new themes, though… What error are you getting to that? I’m wondering if it’s all related…

theme files are 777, which allows rw-Access to everybody on the server, I assume (and the wordpress manual is telling the same thing) that should be enough.

I don’t get any error an activation, they are just not visible… Since theme changes are happening on the same folder… I think it’s related.

edit:// btw thanks for your help I really appreciate that, I was busy the last days because of university.

Couple things:

1. Theme files are 777, but is the themes directory? You may have an owner/permissions problem a step or two higher in the folder structure.

2. Are you using caching of any kind, anywhere?

Can we get a link to the site?

of course: https://www.anselmpeischl.de

The only thing to change is to close the <title>-tag ??

@tim: How do you mean that? Which things are to check? But would that necessarily stop wordpress from reading the theme and wouldnt the normal case to be no theme to be displayed, but other installed ones are visible, maybe this happened through an update? I am not using a specific caching plugin..