Hello Support Team,
I have been trying to update the theme following requested steps as per below:
Step 1 – Deactivate the current “Newspaper” theme from the Appearance > Themes section by simply activating a different theme. Once you activate a different theme, delete the Newspaper theme. Don’t worry, your content will not be lost.
Issue: I am not able to delete the theme and I keep on getting the following message:
Deletion failed: The requested theme does not exist.
Can you please advise?
Thank you,
Regards,
Anna
Hi Support Team,
I get the same Error as Anna.
As Anna I did the same procedure since Newspaper 4. (Deactivating, Delete, Install new Version).
This is the first Time I couldn´t do an Update from previous Version. My actual installed an running Version is Newspaper 7.3
“Löschen fehlgeschlagen: Das angeforderte Theme existiert nicht.”
Thank´s for your quick reply
Karl
Do you have a solution for this Issue? It´s urgent!
Thank´s, Karl
I got the same issues, waiting for TagDiv team responding.
i got same problem! Now in my theme section, there’s three Newspaper themes!!!
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Ok Got it, I know the reason already.
The main reason is if your WordPress is updated to the latest version “4.6.1”, you will NOT be able to delete “Newspaper Theme” as described like this topic. I’ve tried to delete the current “Newspaper Theme” with WordPress 4.6.0 (I have one more host which is NOT updated to 4.6.1 yet), it’s working fine.
My solution is, going to
/wp-content/themes/
and “Delete” the “/Newspaper” manually then back to re-upload theme again. It’s working fine as well.
@thanop – Thank´s for describing how you resolved this Issue.
Just two questions:
You wrote that you manually deleted the Newspaper folder and all it´s files insides this folder.
After that, did you install the theme in backend of WordPress or did you install the Newspaper manually via ftp?
Did you loose any of the settings which you have done after updating?
Thank´s for your reply.
Best Regards, Karl
@thanop – And a last question
Did you try after updating to Newspaper 7.4 to delete this Theme in WordPress Backend? So that we know if we have to change the procedure for future Newspaper 7 Updates? Or if this caused just with Newspaper 7.3 to 7.4 and WordPress 4.6.0 to 4.6.1?
1. I installed Newspaper theme in WordPress back-end again
2. I havent loose any setting or theme configuration because that one is located in the database not the physical files
3. I ve tried to delete Newspaper 7.4 from WordPress 4.6.1 back-end again but it’s still doesnt worked properly 🙁
I think we have to wait for a newer version of both WordPress and Newspaper theme. I hope that both of them will know this issue soon.
The best way to upgrade is
a) delete old version of theme AND the included plugins via FTP
b) install new version of theme in theme folder via FTP
c) upload updated plugins to plugin folder via FTP
d) login to admin panel, resave permalinks
e) optimize dbase with wp-optimize
That is how I’ve been doing it past 3 years with theme back to version 1x. 🙂
@ thanop
Thank´s again for your detailed answer 🙂
@ Chris S
Thank´s too for your words about this Issues.
b) Maybe a silly Question – If I nename the Newspaper Folder for Example “WEBSITETHEME” and upload this renamed Theme folder via FTP does this cause any bad Effects (for Example: Path´s inside Newspaper´s Theme Structure – or are this path´s all relative) ? Or should I do it exact the way you have described?
I ask this question just to make it harder for hackers to discover my Themes Structure. As we all know, Newspaper is a most used Template meanwhile…
Thank´s for reply
Well, you should not have two versions of same theme in theme folder; remember theme “names” come from the style.css file not the folder name. But yes, you can rename the theme folder if only one version is there.
You might want to read the wordpress docs (the ‘codex’) on wordpress.org for more info on renaming things. 🙂
@Chris S
Sorry to be a little unclear in my last post. So again: When I follow your procedure:
a) delete old version of theme AND the included plugins via FTP
b) install new version of theme in theme folder via FTP
Here I meant: Via FTP I upload the renamed Theme in theme folder. The original Theme Name is “NEWSPAPER” Before I´m able to upload the Theme I have to unzip the Zipped Newspaper theme file. When I´m done with unzip I have the Mains Theme Folder “Newspaper” where all relevant Subfolders and files of these Theme are included.
I meant exactly to rename the unzipped Main Theme Folder “Newspaper” to “WebsiteTheme” for Example.
After I have done this I upload this renamed Main Theme Folder to the WordPress Theme folder.
I don´t want to delete any attributs to the Newspaper Developers with this action. Just to make it harder for Bots to find out by Default which Theme I use. If this bots search for Structures like wp-content/themes/Newspaper then the will not find any files cause I have renamed my Newspaper Main Folder.
Hope it is clear now for what I was asking for 🙂
Sorry, but English is not my native Language.
Hi TagDiv Team,
Is it possible please to respond to the original query as soon as possible? I am struggling with a deadline and had to put everything on hold. I am not a heavily experienced user as Chris, hence his solution is not going to work for me. I should be able to follow TagDiv’s suggested Theme steps update as explain in the tutorials. I am not sure how relevant this is but I am using WordPress 4.6.1.
Thanks for the efforts.
Regards,
Anna
Chris thank you for taking the time to help. In my case, I really need the TagDiv Team to respond as soon as possible. Thanks again, Anna
Hello,
I started encountering this problem in the past few weeks. It might be a wp problem. Found a solution that worked for me:
1) FTP into your site;
2) rename wp-content/themes/newspaper to wp-content/themes/newspaper-old;
3) Upload new version of theme;
4) then I was able to delete old version.
Here’s the link to the wp support thread where I found the solution:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deletion-failed-the-requested-theme-does-not-exist/
Hope it helps!
I had the same issue as the OP, you will have to use FTP to change the theme. FTP instructions here https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/
Something changed after the last wordpress 4.6 update.
Hi Guys,
Thanks a lot for your help. Indeed, I had to use FTP to change the theme.
Anna
I have not seen any official word on this topic from TagDiv. I got the same message. As for FTP via FileZilla, I keep trying to download it from the offical site and Avast keeps flagging it as malware (grrr!). I thought about doing the patch instead of the full install and can see how that would get time consuming and cumbersome.
Is the issue due to an incompatibility in the latest WP release and the theme?
Cheers
You need to tell Avast it’s not malware as an exception; one of many reasons I no longer use Avast. 🙂
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UPDATES!
Best way to do this is to learn to use FTP and manually delete the old theme folder, then upload the new theme folder to /themes/ folder and new plugins to the /plugins/ folder in wp-content on your website.
Seriously, worth learning to do – simple, quick, consistent. You know it works, because you’re doing it.
Also good time when doing that to make local backups by downloading your site to your HD, to have safe copies of your site, old themes/plugins, images, wp-config, htaccess, etc.
