Title: fixing broken theme
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# fixing broken theme

 *  [kendbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kendbin/)
 * (@kendbin)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-broken-theme/)
 * With my previous host I had to ask them to update my WordPress. Every time they
   did they screwed it up so I was reluctant to have them do it again. Bottom line,
   somewhere along the line they took the details from my custom theme and overwrote
   the details for the default theme so the blog looks the way it should but it 
   is technically the default theme, while my own theme is listed as broken because
   it lacks a proper stylesheet. I tried opening the default stylesheet and copying
   that info in to the custom sheet but it still is listed as “Stylesheet is missing.”
   Can anyone help me out here?

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 *  [Luiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/st4nd3y/)
 * (@st4nd3y)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-broken-theme/#post-6606161)
 * Hi kendbin!
 * Do your custom theme have a style.css along with the index.php ?
 *  Thread Starter [kendbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kendbin/)
 * (@kendbin)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-broken-theme/#post-6606286)
 * Yes, both of those files are there.
 *  Thread Starter [kendbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kendbin/)
 * (@kendbin)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-broken-theme/#post-6606404)
 * OK, not getting a lot of response here. Let’s try a more specific question. Considering
   that the stylesheet I set up now for my custom theme is identical to the default
   stylesheet, except the header information, which I customized, it would seem 
   that that would work. My question is, is there some other file in the theme that
   calls the stylesheet by name that I need to change so it calls the correct stylesheet?
   I’d really appreciate anybody’s help here. Thanks.

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## Tags

 * [broken theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/broken-theme/)
 * [custom theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-theme/)
 * [missing-stylesheet](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/missing-stylesheet/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [kendbin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kendbin/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-broken-theme/#post-6606404)
 * Status: not resolved

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