Having a problem installing the theme. I’ve unzipped the download file and I do the following:
1. Appearance – Themes – Upload Theme
2. Browse to location of unzipped Newspaper theme document
3. Go into Newspaper-tf
4. Select the Newspaper compressed file
5. ‘Install Now’
The error message that keeps returning is “Are you sure you want to do this?” And the only option is to click “please try again.”
I’ve the latest version of Newspaper Theme and WordPress, and it is installed locally on my Windows machine and running off WAMP.
TIA.
Best way is to unzip the Newspaper theme folder, and just upload folder to the /wp-content/themes/ folder.
Hi andym,
We recommend the FTP method for installing theme according to our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/
Thanks for your understanding!
Thanks for the replies.
I tried your way Chris S but it’s still returning the same error.
Catalln: given it’s installed on my local windows machine can I still use FTP? Or is that only if I’ve it live on a web hosting server somewhere?
Thanks.
Okay after doing some searching around I tried going via url to the following after having moved the unzipped / zipped Newspaper folder into the wp-content/themes folder:
1. http://localhost/murphytimes/wp-admin/themes.php
It displays the other themes but I noticed that down the bottom under “Broken Themes” it has this:
Newspaper Template is missing. Standalone themes need to have a index.php template file. Child themes need to have a Template header in the style.css stylesheet.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Solved!
I can’t say which step specifically (as I uninstalled/re-installed WordPress). But I ended up downloading JUST the wordpress file instead of the full packaged zipped, then unzipped it to wp-content theme folder, went into Themes on my dashboard and could activate it from there instead of having to “install” and unzip through WordPress itself (very similar to Chris S’s initial advice – just needed to be with the WordPress only download).
Thanks for the help and suggestions.
Hello andym,
I am glad that you could manage your problem.
Thanks.
Hi,
Getting the below error while trying to install the theme on my wordpress site. Any resolution?
Broken Themes
The following themes are installed but incomplete.
Name Description
Newspaper Template is missing. Standalone themes need to have a index.php template file. Child themes need to have a Template header in the style.css stylesheet. Delete
Hello arpitsrivastava,
Please try to make a clean WP install from scratch with the latest version of Newspaper (7.4) according to our documentation here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/ We only recommend doing the install/update via FTP because this is the surest method in this regard.
Hope this helps and let us know how it goes!
Thanks.
