Uploading Theme

I have just purchased your theme and I am having problems uploading it to wordpress. I keep getting this error Could not create directory. /home/content/53/11790153/html/smag31/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/

Likely a permission issue where WordPress doesn’t have permissions to create that directory. Best bet is to upload the theme manually to the wp-content/themes folder.

Yeah i tried to upload it manually too through filezilla and I keep getting a fault there too

Well….
1) make sure your folder has writable permissions (like 755)
2) make sure you upload the correct folder – obviously you just want the theme folder, and NOT the big archive with all the docs, psd files, plugins, etc.
3) make sure you have enough space on your hosting account
4) try simply creating a folder called Newspaper in the wp-content/themes folder via FTP — if you can’t do that then it’s definitely a permissions issue

Thank you, i manually installed without using filezilla..I however had to do the same with the plugins as they had directory problems too. Which now seems to affect the ones that need updating, so need to figure that out. I was wondering if you could answer another question, I stupidly installed the demo content, please tell me I can undo this, I have a site with a huge amount of content already and now my homepage is demo content 🙁 Also I have thousands of videos on my site, its a content curration site, my last theme waas using shortcodes which this theme isn’t supporting in my posts, is there a quick solution to this, as I obviously can’t go through thousands of videos to fix it.
Sorry for all the questions, really need some help and get my site back online as soon as possible

Hi,
I think I posted something in another post tonight about un-installing demo content.

One of the reasons I don’t personally use shortcodes as they tend to be theme-specific vs “generic” as you might find with bootstrap elements (which is why I use those or nothing!).

You might have to do a dbase search/replace to replace shortcodes, and there are some posts in the forum you would have to search for to find those, unless another kind soul chimes in here.

Regular tech support folk don’t work weekends …. so usually it’s us folk who pop in and comment based on our own past experience who help out from time to time (I’m waiting for a scan of my system checking for malware … hence sitting here doing nothing …)

Hope some of that helped (likely not).

Christopher, thank you for your help over the weekend, learnt a hard lesson about using shortcodes, had to manually change them all which is why I wasn’t on here lol…what a pain that was.

Lucian sorry i posted this in another string, unfortunately still issues
I did everything manually and my site is up and running now but with a number of problems.
1) The theme would not upload through wordpress, it would also not upload through filezilla, so I did it manually in my FTP.
2) When the theme was uploaded through my ftp i tried uploading the plugins through wordpress, I got the same errors, so I uploaded the included theme plugins through my ftp. However now none of my plugins can be updated, also I am running my theme with all the plugins deactivated because the plugins are breaking the theme, that includes the plugins that were included in the theme, as soon as I activate tagdiv speed booster the site looses all CSS. I am running the theme without the plugins because I have a very popular site with 20,000 visitors a day and cannot afford to have the site down any longer. I also went in and deleted all my old theme files from my ftp, thinking that somewhere they were conflicting with the new theme, but this made no difference.
The site is now significantly slower, with my previous theme I had a speed of 98 and now site speed is 37.
Could you let me know where I can send you login details so I can have you look at it. I need this resolved as soon as possible. I love the theme and would hate to have to switch back to my old theme. I never had any of these issues on my site before with my old theme.
http://smag31.com
Regards
Denise Lauaki

Also now having problems with bigslide, yeasterday working fine, today its not showing 4 latest posts, on the big image it is showing a post that was trashed a long time ago, with no image

I did everything manually and my site is up and running now but with a number of problems.
1) The theme would not upload through wordpress, it would also not upload through filezilla, so I did it manually in my FTP.
2) When the theme was uploaded through my ftp i tried uploading the plugins through wordpress, I got the same errors, so I uploaded the included theme plugins through my ftp. However now none of my plugins can be updated, also I am running my theme with all the plugins deactivated because the plugins are breaking the theme, that includes the plugins that were included in the theme, as soon as I activate tagdiv speed booster the site looses all CSS. I am running the theme without the plugins because I have a very popular site with 20,000 visitors a day and cannot afford to have the site down any longer. I also went in and deleted all my old theme files from my ftp, thinking that somewhere they were conflicting with the new theme, but this made no difference.
The site is now significantly slower, with my previous theme I had a speed of 98 and now site speed is 37.
Could you let me know where I can send you login details so I can have you look at it. I need this resolved as soon as possible. I love the theme and would hate to have to switch back to my old theme. I never had any of these issues on my site before with my old theme.

http://smag31.com

Regards
Denise Lauaki

FileZilla is an FTP tool. If that is not working, there might be something wrong with your settings if you need to use a different FTP tool. Uploading plugins to your wp-content/plugins folder should not impact any other plugins. You should likely check *ownership* permissions of all your WordPress directories via your filamanager in your hosting account to whether something might be “owned” by Apache vs the “FTP user” account. This can be fixed by having your hosting provider change those via command line to fix it.

PLEASE HELP! I followed this advice in a forum and now my site has a fatal error…
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/content/53/11790153/html/smag31/wp-blog-header.php on line 14
I don’t know what to do

1. Open /wp-config.php

Now the first thing you need to do is to open the wp-config.php file from your WordPress root folder (you may access this file from your WordPress installer folder). From the installation folder, the file is located at wordpress/wp-config.php
2. Insert FS_METHOD

Paste the following code to your wp-config.php file, preferably just below every other line of code.

define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’);

FS Method
3. Save and upload

When you have already pasted the one-line code, you can proceed to upload the file to your WordPress root folder on your server, and it should work right away. Uploading can be done directly from your host control panel.

I reinstalled wp/config file from a backup i had, now sites backup

Change the permissions on the wp-content directory to 766. If you still have problems, try 767 or 777. Once your uploads are working, change the permissions on wp-content back to 755 again and check that everything still works OK.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions