Title: Broken theme, Why?
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Broken theme, Why?
* [mdini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdini/)
* (@mdini)
* [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-why/)
* Hello to the WordPress World, I’m new to this forum and I need your valuable
support.
It’s my first attempt to develop a theme from scratch so I decided
to build it piece by piece, to understand what works and what doesn’t. I started
from the two basic files **index.php** and **style.css**.
* Index.php is:
** First shot
IWI
theme
* And Style.css is:
** /\* Theme Name: IWI Theme URI: [http://wordpress.org/](http://wordpress.org/)
Description: Dumb theme Author: Marco Dini Author URI: – Template: Brand new,
no parent template Version: 1.0
* It’s a trial version just to start
*/
* html,body{padding:0.7em 3em 0 3em;margin:0}
h1 {font-size:200%; color: Red;}
* I called this theme
* > iwi
* and moved them in folder
* > …\wordpress\wp-content\themes\
* (yes, I’m working on a Windows platform).
* When I open the Design administration panel, for some reason iwi appears listed
as broken theme, as it was somehow incomplete.
* What is wrong or what I missed in that theme?
* Thanks a lot for your time.
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* [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
* (@iridiax)
* [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-why/#post-784231)
* Is your theme in a folder named **iwi**? If not, it should be.
* Also, use something like the following for the stylesheet link in your theme’s`
`:
* ``
* Thread Starter [mdini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdini/)
* (@mdini)
* [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-why/#post-784236)
* Yes, I put the theme in the folder **iwi**.
I just tried with
* > ” type=”text/
> css” media=”screen” title=”default” />
* but it is still a broken theme.
* Thanks anyway.
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* Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-theme-why/#post-784236)
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