Title: WordPress error: Please select a file
Last modified: August 29, 2022

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# WordPress error: Please select a file

 *  [djmarvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djmarvin/)
 * (@djmarvin)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-error-please-select-a-file/)
 * I am setting up WordPress under WAMP. (WP version – 6)
    **NOTE:** _The link included
   with this message is on my local PC so I’m not sure it will be of any use._ I
   followed all the directions for installing WAMP, setting up database using phpMyAdmin,
   etc. I confirmed that all prerequisites were met before installing WAMP. The 
   WordPress install appeared to go fine. I needed to update the Akismet plugin 
   which also went fine. When I attempted to upload a theme WordPress displayed 
   this error: “Please select a file”. I get this with any theme I try to upload.
   I made sure to change max_upload_filesize and the post_max_size directives of
   PHP to fix a previous “link has expired” issue. I have reviewed everything I 
   did and even uninstalled everything and started over. I’ve been at this for at
   least two days without figuring out what’s going on. I think I have exhausted
   all my options and searches of this forum and the WampServer forums have not 
   produced an answer that applies to what I’m doing. I’m not new to setting up 
   Wamp and WP and have not had this issues before. This is the environment information
   from WAMP:
 *     ```
       WampServer Version 3.2.9 64bit
       Wampserver install version 3.2.3 installed on 2021-09-14
       Updated to 3.2.9 on 2022-08-28
       Apache 2.4.46 Port 80 - PHP 7.4.9
       MySQL 5.7.31 Port 3306 - MariaDB 10.4.13 Port 3307
       PHP 5.6.40 for CLI (Command-Line Interface)
       ```
   
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwordpress-error-please-select-a-file%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-error-please-select-a-file/#post-15958035)
 * The easy thing to do is install the theme manually, which is not as difficult
   as it sounds. 🙂
 * All you need to do is un-zip the themes file, and move that folder into the ‘/
   wp-content/themes’ folder in your website. Then you can activate that theme through
   your administration area.

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 * [WordPress Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-error/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-error-please-select-a-file/#post-15958035)
 * Status: not resolved

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