Uploading “Pulp” Theme

Be sure you don’t have a double folder for your theme. It’s common for theme authors to do this.
Should be:
/wp-content/themes/pulp
Not:
/wp-content/themes/pulp/pulp

I double checked the folder name. It looks correct in my FTP window, and all of the files seem to be present. Any other ideas?

samboll didn’t say anything about folder name. He said check for double folders.

Yes, I understand. There is only one pulp folder in my directory.

But is there a second pulp folder INSIDE the one that’s in your directory? That’s a frequent problem with uncompression programs…. they nest the files into too many named folders.

Nope. There are no pulp folders inside the one in my directory. The only thing with the word pulp in it is pulp.css.

Okay, could you post the comments section from the top of the pulp.css file?

Here it is. I hope this is the section you’re referring to.

.commentcounter{
float: right;
color: #ffc;
font-size: 30px;
font-weight: bold;
padding:5px;
}

.commenttitle {
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
margin-bottom: -10px;
}

Nope. At the very top of the pulp.css you should see a section something like this:

/*
Theme Name: Pulp
Theme URI: https://whereveritcamefrom.com/
Author: (the author's name)
maybe other stuff
*/

Please post what’s there similar to that, and put it inside backticks (the symbol under the tilde to the left of the numeral 1 key on US keyboards) – one backtick to start the section, one to end it.

I don’t see anything like that at the top of pulp.css. It begins with:

body {
font-family: "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, Serif;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 1.6em;
text-align: center;
background: #b9eb1e url(images/bg.gif);
color: #454545;
}

Wait a minute. I found it. I was in style.css not pulp.css.

/*
Theme Name: Pulp
Theme URI: https://miquelcasas.com/
Description: The tastiest theme.
Version: 1.2
Author: Miquel Casas
Author URI: https://miquelcasas.com/
*/

Okay. So what’s “pulp.css” then? Nev’mind, lemme just go get the theme and see what it looks like. Um. Author’s site is gone, do you remember what the download link from themes.wordpress.net was? Nah, s’okay, I got it….

So, to answer your original question, no there’s nothing special you need to do. I downloaded the theme distro, uncompressed it, uploaded to a testbed here https://netwizardry.net/thematics/ – and as you can see, I was able to select it, and it displays fine.

I think if I were you at this point, I’d think maybe there was something corrupted. So delete the theme folder from your wp-content folder online, then reupload it. See if that helps.

I deleted it, downloaded it and uploaded it again, but it’s still not showing up as an option under presentation. I’m very new to FTP. I just dragged and dropped the pulp folder into the wp-content/themes directory, renaming it pulp, instead of pulp-10.

Is there something simple I could have neglected to do?

Well, I didn’t rename the folder when I uploaded. And if I were you, I’d go rename the folder pulp-10 and see if that changes anything. The way that theme is put together, it MIGHT make a difference.

Let me see what happens if I change it on my server to “pulp”. Nope, didn’t matter. So I haven’t a clue….