Another theme prob

[LogJam]

Having problems adding some themes

Checked out post - http://get-simple.info/forum/topic/2842/...new-theme/
And http://get-simple.info/forum/topic/2649/theme-is-lost/

Found that for the theme to appear in the themes tab it must have style.css and template.php in the theme subfolder (like the default Cardinal and Innovation).

So that themes like “Indication” and “clean-simple” work ok, but other themes like “free-gs012” , “tongue” and others who don’t follow the above don’t work for me.

Checked this on my online install and on a stock install on local host. Neither show the new theme in the drop down box.

Any advice please.

[Connie]

first, welcome here!

It is good that you found the way to our forum here.

I can say that only template.php is necessary, if you link to another CSS in your template, that is ok

GS will identify all .php-files in the themes folder and will set template.php as default-template when you open the options of a page

the question is:

how you installed the theme.
And which theme.
And if you can show us the URL

maybe you set the wrong URL in the settings? That could be one of the reasons why the theme is not found.

what's the result of the server - health - check? (Settings - first steps - server health check)

Cheers, Connie

[LogJam]

Hi Connie,
Thanks for the fast response and warm welcome.

Ok
Downloaded - http://get-simple.info/extend/theme/tongue/245/
Which has 4 folders inside the zip = data, images, plugins & theme
Extracted locally to a folder called tongue
ftp using filezilla to my free webspace, dropped the tongue folder into the theme folder of gs3

No sign of the tongue theme in the dropdown box

server health check = all results are green.

Not too sure of what URL you want do you mean the Website Base URL: which is http://usbtux.hostzi.com/

I have the same issue if I try the same using uniform server WAMP package to test the site setup.

[Ampersand]

This cunning theme is missing proper install info. If you unzip it to your root directory of GS install all should go well, but on a shared hosting this may be tricky. So a safer manual method:
1. Unzip downloaded toungue.zip to your local comp
2. Upload (via your ftp FileZilla program) ToungueSettings.xml file from data/other folder created from zipped file to data/other folder of your GS install on your server/webspace.
3. Upload TounguePlugin folder with all its conntents and TounguePlugin.php file from plugins folder to plugins folder of your GS install
4. Upload toungue folder with its contents from theme folder to theme folder of your GS install

Afterwards you can compare if all files from zip package are in relevant places of your GS

PS. I dowlnloaded a zip package with 3 main folders (images folder somewhere deeper within), so pay attention to that.

[LogJam]

Thank you Ampersand.

Just tried this on my local wamp works a treat.
As they say - its obvious when you know what you're doing.