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ClaytonJames thank you very much for your reply on my question. I did indeed have some stuff in the content folder that did not belong. Here’s the story:

Note to anyone needing this: Be careful which folders you are uploading files into!

I watched the tutorial and thanks for including it. If uploading the themes wasn’t the issue, then uploading something else was! It looks like I uploaded a large volume of individual files directly into the overall content folder. This was a mistake which wasn’t caught up until today.

If you’re a novice like me, your content folder should originally include the index.php file, the themes folder, and the plugins folder. If you have a lot more than that in your content folder, then you may have uploaded something into the folder by mistake, and therefore its messing up your website. Now before you do what I did, you may want to backup your files, because I deleted the entire contents altogether: including plugins and themes, and re-uploaded a fresh content folder with nothing in it. Now all the themes in preview are available for viewing, themes are formatted properly, and the website is back working perfectly.

(Be careful here as there may be an easier solution. For example I could have possibly deleted each individual file and left the index.php file, plugins folder, and themes folder in tact. Actually this may be a better idea. It may take longer however.

Thanks again!