Here’s a Weird One- “The requested theme does not exist” when in Theme Editor
Wow- this one took a while to figure out. was editing a theme to a blog install. Was very basic- adding some text to footer file. Which I have done about 5 gazillion times- but first time with this theme. Made the changes and hit “update file” Got this error:
“The requested theme does not exist”
Wha??
The name of the theme is pulled from the stylesheet. The designer had used an “&” symbol in the name of the theme- in the style sheet and no where else.
The “&” symbol is called an ampersand, btw.
Was easy to fix. Can edit cs file with an ftp client (right click on the css file on server and change name) or download onto harddrive, change and re-upload and overwrite the old file.
This was an odd one. Must have something to do with newer version of WordPress and OLD theme.
Your stylesheet.css probably had something like this at the top:
/*
Theme Name: Theme Name
Theme URI: http://www.whitehouse.org
Description: Theme Description
Version: 2.0.8
Author: Author Name
Author URI: http://www.whitehouse.org
*/
If you remove this information, WordPress can’t detect what theme it is and it generates this error.
The solution is to restore the original style.css (or wherever the lines that look like the ones above were), select a different theme from the appearance menu, activate it, then re-activate your original theme. It seemed to work for me.
-Nick
PsychoticResumes.com
I got the same error when I was editing my theme and my internet connection died/turned sluggish just as I was updating the files.
I ended up having to both re-upload the 3 files I’d been editing at the time via FTP. Still nothing. Then I switched themes and then back to the original and that fixed it.
Lessons learned: 1) I hate my ISP very much, and 2) Don’t let your internet go down while doing work - make some sort of bargain with it
Nick, that work for me perfectly. Thank you very much for your information!!!!
Regards from Argentina.