Title: missing stylesheet
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# missing stylesheet

 *  Resolved [cielogrande](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cielogrande/)
 * (@cielogrande)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-stylesheet-2/)

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 *  Thread Starter [cielogrande](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cielogrande/)
 * (@cielogrande)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-stylesheet-2/#post-241820)
 * Pardon me for hitting the wrong button on my keyboard…
    This question has been
   asked before, but the topic is closed and I cannot read the replies: When I log-
   in as administrator and attempt to change themes, two of my newly downloaded 
   themes are described as having a “missing stylesheet.” The stylesheets do actually
   exist for these themes and are in the appropriate folder with the rest of the
   theme content. How can I get WordPress to recoginize the existance of these stylesheets
   so I can try the themes? Thank-You. DB~
 *  [Joshua Sigar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphaoide/)
 * (@alphaoide)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-stylesheet-2/#post-241821)
 * Where do you download the themes from? (link, please)
    Are those themes WP 1.5
   compatible? Are you on wp 1.5?
 *  [tunicwriter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tunicwriter/)
 * (@tunicwriter)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-stylesheet-2/#post-241822)
 * Also, the stylesheets have to be named style.css
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-stylesheet-2/#post-241823)
 * From reviewing other threads on this a coomon “theme” is putting the theme in
   an improper directory. Make sure the directory is wp-content/themes/themename/
   style.css
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-stylesheet-2/#post-242116)
 * There is another issue that might be the problem. Just to give you some options
   and help future users.
 * The Theme’s style sheet must have a header as described in this [article on Theme Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Anatomy_of_a_Theme).
   If that is missing, the Presentation or Theme selector on your Administration
   Panel won’t “find” the Theme’s stylesheet.
 * Then, inside the themes, especially the `header.php` needs to be the information
   that will “call” the theme appropriately, not only to the file name but the template
   file reference.
 * See [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
   for more information on that.
 *  [greeny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greeny/)
 * (@greeny)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-stylesheet-2/#post-242655)
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 *  [kimdushinski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimdushinski/)
 * (@kimdushinski)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-stylesheet-2/#post-242657)
 * I get that same error (Stylesheet is missing.) with all of these themes:
 * journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-1
    journalized-winter-theme-1.0.2 magazine. problogger-
   clean sem-theme springer-theme triSexuality wordpress19
 * I am using WP 1.5. It appears they each have a style.css file within their proper
   directory. Other themes are working fine.
 * So, is the only fix on the end of the person supplying the theme or am I supposed
   to be able to do something? I read the article referenced above but was not able
   to make heads or tails of it.
 * Sorry to ask, this is just so frustrating. Finding great themes that won’t complelety
   load…

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