Adding new Theme

  • cookiemonstah

    (@cookiemonstah)


    10 years ago

    Hello guys,

    I was wondering since i’m completely new to the whole website creating scene.
    I was trying to add a Theme next to the 3 standards i already have on my wordpress admin page, but i’ve been getting an error:
    Downloading install package from https://downloads.wp.xz.cn/theme/zerif-lite.1.8.4.4.zip…

    Unpacking the package…

    Could not create directory.

    Now i’ve managed to install a FTP server on my VPS.
    Port 21 is open. I placed the Theme (that i downloaded manually) inside the theme’s folder right next to the other 3 already existing theme’s.
    also granted permission 777 on ALL folders and sub folders + files.

    now i’m not really an expert on this kind of thing, so please keep the questions in “noob language” so i will try do to my best to give you all the information you require and i would like to thank you guys in advance for helping me out on this problem. *already working on the website 2,5 weeks now* getting better at this step by step and trying to learn from all the mistakes i make. this is the first question after 2,5 weeks since i really can’t seem the find the solution.

    so thanks again, i’d love to see your replies.

    Kind regards,

    CookieMonstah

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  • Clarion Technologies

    (@clarionwpdeveloper)

    10 years ago

    Hello cookiemonstah,

    IF you have given the permission 777 to folders then it should work because the error “Could not create directory.” occurred when there was no write permission inside folder So can you please it again by clearing the cache.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter cookiemonstah

    (@cookiemonstah)

    10 years ago

    Hello Clarion,

    Thank you for your reply. i use google chrome and went to settings – history – clear cache.

    This doesn’t seem to fix the problem. Is there any other type of information i could supply you with?

    i used file zilla – file permission on all the different folders, went for code 777 and it automaticaly selected read/write etc. seemed it worked out fine.

    part of the file zilla log:

    Retrieving directory listing of “/root/wordpress/wp-content/themes/zerif-lite/inc/admin”…
    Status: Listing directory /root/wordpress/wp-content/themes/zerif-lite/inc/admin
    Status: Directory listing of “/root/wordpress/wp-content/themes/zerif-lite/inc/admin” successful
    Status: Retrieving directory listing of “/root/wordpress/wp-content/themes/zerif-lite/inc/admin/welcome-screen”…

    Kind regards,

    CookieMonstah

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