Do me favor and give this a try…. CHMOD all of your template files to 777.

To answer your question.. the minumum you need in the theme folder is index.php and style.css

The reason I asked you to CHMOD the files is just today I was trying to apply a custom page template to a particular page. For the life of me I could not get Wordpress to recognize the new page template. The permission change allowed wordpress to now recognize that file.

Please post back your results.. positive or negative. Thanks

Ok.. wordpress loop or meta code you take from any theme, whether its the Default Kubrick or another one.. you need to inspect all that code and make sure you carry of the asscoiated styles form the style sheet.

For example in the Default theme on the index page there is a snipped of code calling a p class of postmetadate.. look for those style in the style sheet and copy them over.

As for your second question…

Open the Default theme header.php file and you’ll need to copy over everything from the top of the page down through the closing of the head tag (I think).

There are calls here for the stylesheet and rss etc that need to be included.

Hope this helps. If not.. email me on Monday and I’ll see what I can do to help you out.

me AT seachfriendlywebdesign DOT com

0. Merge your head content from the Kubrick header.php file into the Dreamweaver Template so it can filter out to all associated pages. Be sure not to over write or mess up and of the Dreamweaver Template tags.

where do i find those?

Now I’m just trying to get the rest to work. I was sort of confused with where to copy and paste the above stuff. Maybe you could post an example? or screen shot of before and after?

at least my wordpress is now recognizing that i made a theme now!

thanks!

Try removing the line in the stylesheet that says…
Template: WordPress Default

Also be sure that you css file is named style.css

I’ve run into this problem once before but it was so long ago I forgot the actual fix is.. try the above and post back with your results.

Thanks

I did all the stuff you said to. And now when i go to change my theme it says “template is missing”.
How do i fix that? heres the beggining to my css.

/*
Theme Name: Skipster
Theme URI: don’t copy
Description: design by me with dreamweaver
Author: Martha
Author URI: skipstermag.com
Template: WordPress Default
Version 1.6
*/

I made the template in dreamweaver though and just used your codes above.

whats wrong with it?

Thanks Sammy

siemens s7

This implementation isn’t dependent on Wordpress by any means. In the instance that I was working out the solution, I was doing so for a non-wordpress website.