Title: Plugin automatically creates an empty folder public_html/themes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Plugin automatically creates an empty folder public_html/themes

 *  Resolved [Nick Forest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickshor/)
 * (@nickshor)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-automatically-creates-an-empty-folder-public_htmlthemes/)
 * An empty directory called “themes” gets automatically created at the root of 
   my public_html directory.
    I use WordPress Multisite 3.5, but I activated the
   plugin only on one of my blogs in the network. After deactivation of Crayon Syntax
   Highlighter the issue seams to disappear.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/)

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 *  Plugin Author [akarmenia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akarmenia/)
 * (@akarmenia)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-automatically-creates-an-empty-folder-public_htmlthemes/#post-3339814)
 * Please update to the latest github zip. I’ve taken extra measures against this
   now, but it may mean that there’s a bug with the code I’m using to detect the
   upload directory. Let me know if this bug is no longer occurring and also whether
   you’re able to duplicate a theme.
 *  Thread Starter [Nick Forest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickshor/)
 * (@nickshor)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-automatically-creates-an-empty-folder-public_htmlthemes/#post-3339816)
 * I’m sorry, I stopped using this plugin, because it breaks one of my blogs (named“
   themes”) in the network.
 *  Plugin Author [akarmenia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akarmenia/)
 * (@akarmenia)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-automatically-creates-an-empty-folder-public_htmlthemes/#post-3339817)
 * No worries. I also noticed the “themes” directory made on the 2nd of January,
   but after deleting it didn’t come back, so most likely the subsequent updates
   to the dev version have fixed any issues.
 *  Thread Starter [Nick Forest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickshor/)
 * (@nickshor)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-automatically-creates-an-empty-folder-public_htmlthemes/#post-3339819)
 * It is quite possible to use it again in the future, but for now I use small pieces
   of snippets and is seams enough to use the html pre tag.
 * Actually that was the main reason I have chosen your plugin, because it has backward
   compatible with pre tag and after plugin deactivating nothing breaks 🙂
 * Thank you for taking the time for this!
 *  Plugin Author [akarmenia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akarmenia/)
 * (@akarmenia)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-automatically-creates-an-empty-folder-public_htmlthemes/#post-3339824)
 * You’re welcome 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [akarmenia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akarmenia/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-automatically-creates-an-empty-folder-public_htmlthemes/#post-3339824)
 * Status: resolved