Title: Theme Uploading Help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Theme Uploading Help

 *  Resolved [Shirley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shirley/)
 * (@shirley)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-uploading-help/)
 * Hello,
 * WordPress is installed on my new blog. I want to use a theme that is not part
   of my WordPress package.
 * I downloaded the new theme to my PC and unzipped it. The saved file is ready 
   to upload to my WordPress themes folder (wp-content/themes).
 * When I upload the unzipped theme, the theme is an executable file, not a folder.
   What am I doing to keep the file from uploading properly so that it is an active
   theme?
 * Thank you,
 * Shirley

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-uploading-help/#post-343631)
 * Where did you get that theme which is _one_ (1) file?
    Either your unzipping 
   software doesn’t work… or what you get is not a theme.
 *  Thread Starter [Shirley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shirley/)
 * (@shirley)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-uploading-help/#post-343845)
 * Hello,
 * Thanks so much for the reply. Something happened overnight to make the theme 
   work properly, and all is fine.
 * If only everything would fix itself while you sleep.
 * In appreciation,
 * Shirley
 *  [merfnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merfnet/)
 * (@merfnet)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-uploading-help/#post-343846)
 * So funny that you mentioned that the files don’t unzip into a folder. Samething
   happened to be but I erased it before midnight…..lol
 *  [merfnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merfnet/)
 * (@merfnet)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-uploading-help/#post-343847)
 * I think I may have found the answer to folder problem.
 * When you download the theme you want in to your WP content and then themes and
   you are using FTP program which many of us do. If the folder is on your desktop
   and you click on it and drag it into your FTP it will mess up and just give you
   one file in it. Delete the one file and use the FTP as it should be used and 
   send it over to the themes folder. It will all upload properly.
 * Do not drag it in to the folder straight off the desktop will work

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [merfnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merfnet/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-uploading-help/#post-343847)
 * Status: resolved

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