Title: fixed it! missing themes
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# fixed it! missing themes

 *  [kristjan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristjan/)
 * (@kristjan)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-it-missing-themes/)
 * i just spent a couple of hours going jelly-brain, but i’m happy to say it’s fixed,
   so i thought i’d share, incase others have the same problem.
 * i could not see the themes in the ‘presentation’ admin page. not the default 
   two themes or any new uploaded themes. i eventually found (from a post here) 
   about the permissions issue, so i went around 777’ing lots of files, but that
   didn’t help. eventually i figured out that you can set permissions for files 
   aswell (maybe i’m stoopid, but i didn’t make this idea-leap at first) so i 777’
   d the wp_content file itself (and enclosed items for good measure) and now i 
   can see themes. yippeeee!
 * k

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-it-missing-themes/#post-444683)
 * while that seem like a great solution, its not — youve introduced more potential
   for trouble later than you are aware of.
 * The MINIMUM permissions your wp-content/ DIRECTORY (and any directorys within
   it) require is 755.
 * The MINIMUM permissions FILES inside wp-content/ require is 644
 * 777 is world-writable, and not an advisable permission over the long term for
   security reasons.
 * In short, thats terrible advice, especially for someone that might come here 
   without a basic understanding of file permission settings (im guessing you have
   little, if any, as well) and their effects.
 *  [frankpereiro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankpereiro/)
 * (@frankpereiro)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-it-missing-themes/#post-444689)
 * That’s true, that’s a security risk.
 * But, what should we do? I upgraded my baseball blog to 2.0.4 and I can’t switch
   themes, the default theme always comes up. That’s why I haven’t upgraded my personal
   blog.
 * I’ve been waiting for an answer to this in the forum but haven’t seen or read
   a solution yet.
 * Sorry for my english.
 * Cheers!
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-it-missing-themes/#post-444693)
 * frankpereiro, while I see your previous posts about this, I also see that you
   havent actually provided a link to the blog where your problem is. Personally,
   I try not to give advice without actually looking at the site first.
 * That said, the original poster in this thread didnt say she was having an issue
   with the theme “changing”, she said she didnt _see_ themes in the presentation
   menu.
 * No file, whether it be a text file or any other needs to be _world-writable_ 
   for it to be “seen”, it needs to be _world-readable_, which is exactly what chmod
   644 accomplishes.
 * Your problem, as I understand it is completely different than hers. Since youve
   already started a few threads..
 * PS: Your english is just fine. In fact it seems better than some seemingly native
   English speakers Ive read on here.
 *  [frankpereiro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankpereiro/)
 * (@frankpereiro)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-it-missing-themes/#post-444703)
 * Thanks whooami, I thought I did post a link to my baseball blog but obviously
   I didn’t. The link is: [http://www.beisbolreport.com/blogs/](http://www.beisbolreport.com/blogs/)
 * Maybe you could give me some advice on what is going on with the templates “not
   sticking” (sort of say).
 * I just started one thread about this, then I replied on some others that I thought
   faced the same problem as mine. My problem is that every time I choose some template,
   it goes back to the default. I don’t understand why.
 * Thanks,

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