Title: Fatal Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Fatal Error

 *  [technokie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/technokie/)
 * (@technokie)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-286/)
 * Right, so i am a WordPress newbie, and ive been following a tutorial online showing
   me how to make a basic theme, ive done as asked.
    – Installed it – Inside WP-
   content/themes/ ive made a folder – in that folder i have made index.php, header.
   php, footer.php, sidebar.php, functions.php and style.css – I upload all my files
   to my server and i get an error message! 🙁 “Fatal error: Call to undefined function
   get_header() in /customers/technologicaluk.co.uk/technologicaluk.co.uk/httpd.
   www/blog/wp-content/themes/blog theme/index.php on line 1 “
 * I have no idea what im doing wrong as im a noob! 🙁 The tutorial i am following
   is at [ So can you please help 🙂 ](http://themeshaper.com/2009/06/25/wordpress-theme-template-directory-structure-tutorial/)
 * Here is my code.
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
       <div id="container">
   
           <div id="content">
           </div><!-- #content -->
   
       </div><!-- #container -->
   
       <div id="primary" class="widget-area">
       </div><!-- #primary .widget-area -->
   
       <div id="secondary" class="widget-area">
       </div><!-- #secondary -->
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * thanks

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-286/#post-2060380)
 * Probably your theme does not like 3.1.2
 * If you want to get into admin, you may rename your theme’s folder (via FTP) and
   that will force the WP to fall back on the default Twenty Ten.

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