Theme search fails

  • Resolved radly

    (@radly)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve just installed WP 3.0.1 and am in the “getting to know you” stage, with a copy of the Apress book “Beginning WordPress 3” at my elbow. I want to explore some different themes, so I click on the “Change Theme” button to get to the “Install Themes” tab. I then click the “Find Themes” button to search for some themes. I get a page that says “An Unexpected HTTP Error occured during the API request.” along with a link encouraging me to “Try again”, which I do to no avail. The tail end of the URL is “wp-admin/theme-install.php?tab=search”.

    This is my first WordPress experience, so I’m not sure if I’ve tried this too early; perhaps I need to get something else done first?

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  • Thread Starter radly

    (@radly)

    And I get similar misbehavior on the Plugins->Add New screen, “Search Plugins” button. Coincidence?

    Try contacting your hosts. Their server configuration may be blocking your attempts to access the Themes & Plugins Directory.

    Thread Starter radly

    (@radly)

    That sounded reasonable, so I made wp-content permissions recursively 777. But, alas, that had no effect. My server error logs don’t show any failures, either.

    It’s got nothing to do with file & folder [permissions. Try contacting your hosts. They may have disabled access to external sites via PHP.

    Thread Starter radly

    (@radly)

    It would help me when I contact them if I knew what to ask about. “… access the Themes & Plugins Directory” sounded like “… permissions on wp-content/Themes & wp-content/Plugins”, but I guess that’s not what you meant. So what exactly is “Themes & Plugins Directory” and what kind of access is being attempted? If I knew which PHP program was attempting it I could be a bit more specific. (I said I was new to WordPress, but I didn’t say I was new to PHP. ?? )

    Thread Starter radly

    (@radly)

    Well, that was interesting. I decided to scratch the whole thing and start over. For reasons that I don’t quite fathom, this time (unlike the first time) I had to set the permissions on the top level folder to 777, and that seems to have made an abundance of difference. Problem solved. Thanks for the response.

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