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[ronnie]

Everything that goes with the theme stays in the same folder and goes in the wp-content/themes/themename folder, nothing gets separated. It's saying broken because you moved files around and didn't keep them together. Each theme folder should have a stylesheet and php files, plus usually a screenshot.png.

All stays in the one folder, you just upload the whole folder intact.

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by ronnie

All stays in the one folder, you just upload the whole folder intact.

I did that, and uploaded all the other files to the public_html folder where all the other WP files are located. I uploaded the new index.php file but when I tried to access the blog I got a mysql error so I uploaded the original WP index.php file and the blog works, just get the missing stylesheet info in the admin.

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

I did that, and uploaded all the other files to the public_html folder where all the other WP files are located. I uploaded the new index.php file but when I tried to access the blog I got a mysql error so I uploaded the original WP index.php file and the blog works, just get the missing stylesheet info in the admin.

You did not read my post....... DO NOT SEPERATE anything from theme folder. Take the whole folder and upload it to the wp-content/themes/ folder. Thats it. DO NOT upload any files from the theme folder anywhere else. They all stay in the folder. Again, the stylesheet is missing because you uploaded it else where. It along with everything else, including the php files stay in the folder.

Thats the beauty of WP themes, you upload a theme folder, choose the theme in the admin and your done. There is no uploading files here and there.

The index file you uploaded did not work, because it is just the theme part of the real index file.

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

I uploaded the "skins" folder to the wp-content/themes folder. I uploaded all the other files to the public_html folder......In the skins folder there are colors available and each has it's own stylesheet, blue-skin.css, flowers-skin.css, etc. In the main folder there is layout.css and style.css.

As stated above I uploaded the skins folder to the wp-content/themes folder in it's entirety. There are style sheets in that folder which are not uploaded anywhere else. There are several colors available and each color has it's own style sheet. There may be 5 or 6 each with it's own name.

Originally Posted by ronnie

...It along with everything else, including the php files stay in the folder.

They are...

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

I did that, and uploaded all the other files to the public_html folder where all the other WP files are located. I uploaded the new index.php file but when I tried to access the blog I got a mysql error so I uploaded the original WP index.php file and the blog works, just get the missing stylesheet info in the admin.

Thats what I was going by. There are no files that need to be uploaded into the public_html folder, unless it is an odd theme. Plus you said you uploaded the "new index.php file", there is no such thing, that index file stays only in the theme folder and is used like a include into the main WP index.php page. Plus you said about the missing stylesheet, sounded like you moved the style sheet that came with the theme, into the public_html folder also, which you shouldn't have done.

Well if every single file that came with the theme is in the theme folder, you should be set. Just pick the theme in the admin and your good to go. Since it has different styles, there should be options for the theme in the admin, under the "presentation" tab.

Every theme I have used/tired (many), all that is needed to is upload the theme folder, thats it. There are NO files that need to be uploaded anywhere else.

[Licker4U]

OK, I got it now. All the other files that weren't in the skins folder had to be uploaded into the skins folder. I wonder why he had the skins folder a seperate folder from all the other files? Anyway, I have the theme I want now I have to tweak it.