Theme Info from CSS displaying strange in admin panel

  • I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction as to why my theme’s info is displaying incorrectly in the WordPress theme admin panel.

    The CSS file is set up like this (as per the WP codex):

    /*
Theme Name: New WP Theme
Theme URI: https://www.website.com/forum
Description: A theme designed by <a href="https://www.website.com">My Name</a>
Version: 1.0
Author: My Name
Author URI: https://www.website.com
Tags: sports, 2 column, widgitized footer, image slider, awesome

    Copyright: (c) 2010 My Name
    Support Forum at https://www.website.com/forum
*/

    …but it’s displaying in the WP admin panel like this:

    New WP Theme URI: https://www.website.com/forum Description: New WP theme designed by My Name Version: 1.0 Author: My Name Author URI: https://www.website.com Tags: sports, 2 column, widgitized footer, image slider, awesome Copyright: (c) 2010 My Name. Support Forum at https://www.website.com/forum 1.0 Author: My Name Author URI: https://www.website.com Tags: sports, 2 column, widgitized footer, image slider, awesome Copyright: (c) 2010 My Name. Support Forum at https://www.website.com/forum by My Name Author URI: https://www.website.com Tags: sports, 2 column, widgitized footer, image slider, awesome Copyright: (c) 2010 My Name. Support Forum at https://www.website.com/forum

    New WP theme designed by My Name Version: 1.0 Author: My Name Author URI: https://www.website.com Tags: sports, 2 column, widgitized footer, image slider, awesome Copyright: (c) 2010 My Name. Support Forum at https://www.website.com/forum

    All of this theme’s files are located in /themes/newWPtheme.

    Tags: sports, 2 column, widgitized footer, image slider, awesome Copyright: (c) 2010 My Name. Support Forum at https://www.website.com/forum

    I’m a WP theme developer and never have I come across something so strange. I can’t image it’s something with the new WP 3.0 version but I’d really love it someone could toss a few ideas my way so I can try and sort out the problem.

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  • Thread Starter Jami Gibbs

    (@jami0821)

    So I’ve tried an install on my localhost and on a live server (thinking that maybe it was the WP install that might be causing issues) but it’s the same output for both.

    WP seems to be displaying the theme information over and over again in a loop and I have no idea why.

    Any help?

    Just experienced this problem as well. The theme info used to display OK, but has started displaying incorrectly. Cutting and pasting other theme info sections that display OK into the faulty css file did not resolve the problem, but I couldn’t find any difference in encoding etc between OK files and one faulty one.

    The only thing that worked for me was a clumsy work around where each line of theme info was placed in a separate comment, e.g.

    /*
    Theme Name: New WP Theme
    */
    /*
    Theme URI: https://www.website.com/forum
    */
    /*
    Description: A theme designed by My Name
    */

    I just had this same problem, there was no difference in the text in the files but something must have gotten messed up somewhere when copying/saving/moving the files I guess. I was using Notepad2 to edit.

    I fixed it by copying the code from the buggy file, opening a clean version of the twenty ten style.css file, pasting the content in there and resaving it over the buggy one. Now everything is back to normal.

    Hope that helps anyone else looking for answers on this odd problem ??

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