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CSS style sheet

by perpetualmike
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Hi,

While trying to upload a theme from my desktop, I keep getting
this error message:

"The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet."

Can someone tell me what this means and how to fix it?

Thank you

Mike
#css #sheet #style
  • Profile picture of the author Zenoth
    Originally Posted by perpetualmike View Post

    Hi,

    While trying to upload a theme from my desktop, I keep getting
    this error message:

    "The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet."

    Can someone tell me what this means and how to fix it?

    Thank you

    Mike
    style.css is a required file that needs to be included inside the root of a valid WordPress theme.
    Make sure the theme you are trying to upload has this file inside it.
    Also, make sure template files are not stored in multiple folders inside the .zip archive.
    For example, a valid WordPress archived theme should look like this:
    Open (not extract) .zip archive with WinRar. Inside it you should find a folder named the same as the theme and inside this folder you should find template files and folders. Among these files you should find a style.css file, index.php file, etc. If you can't find these files, your theme is either corrupted or has an invalid archive structure.
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    • Profile picture of the author perpetualmike
      Hi Zenoth,

      The file does contain the style css folder.

      Maybe the file is corrupt, don't really know how to check this.

      Bought this theme from someone here on the forum, but can't login to
      support.

      It's these little shit problems that keep trying to bring me down.

      But I will never give up

      Hence the name: perpetualmike

      Will keep trying to get in touch with the theme seller.

      Thanks for you reply

      Mike
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      • Profile picture of the author jgjh151
        Maybe that the theme zip file is inside the main zip file. Sometimes you need to unzip the file to find the theme zip, instructions pdf, etc...
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        • Profile picture of the author Zenoth
          So, your theme has a style.css file inside the root folder. This is a good thing.
          Open your theme archive with WinRar and tell me the folders structure until you reach the location of style.css file.

          Example: Archive (where "Archive" is the .zip archive) -> folder1 (folder inside archive) -> style.css

          A correct archive structure: Archive->ThemeName->style.css

          Bad archive structure: Archive->Theme Name->Another Folder->style.css

          Bad archive structure 2: Archive->style.css

          However, if the theme structure is good and somehow is not recognized by WordPress as a valid theme, you can use a FTP client as an alternative way to upload your theme to your host.
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          • Profile picture of the author advent
            @zenoth gives you a exact documentation, but i have noticed one thing, if your theme contains stylesheet.css, then the error wont show like this "The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.". so check your theme file again, and try to find the exact theme folder.


            Originally Posted by Zenoth View Post

            So, your theme has a style.css file inside the root folder. This is a good thing.
            Open your theme archive with WinRar and tell me the folders structure until you reach the location of style.css file.

            Example: Archive (where "Archive" is the .zip archive) -> folder1 (folder inside archive) -> style.css

            A correct archive structure: Archive->ThemeName->style.css

            Bad archive structure: Archive->Theme Name->Another Folder->style.css

            Bad archive structure 2: Archive->style.css

            However, if the theme structure is good and somehow is not recognized by WordPress as a valid theme, you can use a FTP client as an alternative way to upload your theme to your host.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hostnameclub
    You should look at a style.css file. It should be has content like that:

    Code:
    /*
Theme Name: Template Name
Theme URI: an url to theme page
Author: Author name
Author URI: an url to author page
Description: The modern responsive wordpress theme for portfolio team.
Version: 1.0
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: light, multi-purpose, responsive
*/
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  • Profile picture of the author MrJaswal
    Some time WP Theme package is corrupted and that time this error will be disappear
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