“The requested theme does not exist.”

sweaverit
(@sweaverit)

16 years, 5 months ago

WordPress is working great, until I try to edit the theme I’m using in theme editor. The formatting on the theme editor page, as well as the themes individual files, is completely screwed up & when I go to save my changes I get the error message “The requested theme does not exist.” It was fine 24 hours ago – and it had not been touched before this happened. Any suggestions on what this problem might be, or how I may fix it would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

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esmi
(@esmi)

16 years, 5 months ago

Re-upload the theme via FTP?

deliwasista
(@deliwasista)

16 years, 3 months ago

oh no im having the same problem! if I reload the theme again wont it change all template changes… eg header will change..

deliwasista
(@deliwasista)

16 years, 3 months ago

Oh actually found the cause – my style.css was missing its header!!! have gone back to a fresh style.css from my theme and returned it and hey presto my theme now shows under the “appearance” section again!

beeper
(@beeper)

16 years, 2 months ago

I am having the same problem. deliwasista, what header are you missing? I cant find the problem? thanks!
Samuel B
(@samboll)

16 years, 2 months ago
all style sheets need a header
this is the one from default theme style.css – yours will be similar if present
```
/*
Theme Name: WordPress Default
Theme URI: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/
Description: The default WordPress theme based on the famous <a href="http://binarybonsai.com/kubrick/">Kubrick</a>.
Version: 1.6
Author: Michael Heilemann
Author URI: http://binarybonsai.com/
Tags: blue, custom header, fixed width, two columns, widgets

	Kubrick v1.5
	 http://binarybonsai.com/kubrick/

	This theme was designed and built by Michael Heilemann,
	whose blog you will find at http://binarybonsai.com/

	The CSS, XHTML and design is released under GPL:
	http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php

*/
```
kulbreez
(@kulbreez)

16 years, 1 month ago

I’m having this problem, and my style.css DOES have a header!

juliechennet
(@juliechennet)

16 years ago

esmi’s suggestion from a previous post just solved the issue for me.
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/385269?replies=5#post-1541281

pamteplitz
(@teplitz)

15 years, 11 months ago

I have created a theme and everything works. I can FTP new files in and they write the pages correctly. The blog pages work. The theme appears in Appearances>Themes. I can edit the Pages and publish them.

In the Theme Editor, when I go to update any file, I get the message “The requested theme does not exist.”

My style.css has a proper header according to the samples but the entire comment appears in the Appearance>Theme listing three times. If I delete everything except for the Theme Name (my name, description, url, etc) then I can update all of the files and there are no problems.

???!!!???

Derby Web Design
(@derby-web-design)

15 years, 8 months ago

All you need to do is CHMOD your theme folder to 755, copy a new version of the header into your style.css and you are done.