WordPress Broken Theme, Template is Missing Error

[Anonymous]

I just started learning WordPress today and am trying to add a new theme. I added this to the top of my style.css file

/*
Theme Name: WordPress Theme
Theme URI: http://reallycoolstuff.net/wordpress
Description: Fully Responsive WordPress Theme
Version: 1.0
Author: Jarolin Vargas
Author URI: http://domain.com
Tags: responsive, theme, template
*/

and added this to index.php file to link the style.css sheet.

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[TheDoc]

Must be `style.css`.

[Anonymous]

@TheDoc it had something to do with it. I simply moved the styles.css to the same directory the index.php file was and it shows up in wordpress. But now it’s all just blank. Nothing is showing.

[TheDoc]

I’m saying the file name must be style.css, not styles.css

[Anonymous]

@TheDoc I do have it as style.css i just wrote it like that here without realizing.

[Alen]

The `style.css` file (not “styles.css”) must be in the theme folder `wp-content/themes/**your-theme**/style.css`.

[Anonymous]

@AlenAbdula That’s what i did and wordpress recognized it. But then this is what i get http://www.reallycoolstuff.net/wordpress/

[Alen]

We need more information. How did you set up your theme/templates?

[Anonymous]

@AlenAbdula i actually created the entire theme as an HTML template and then decided to make it a wordpress theme.

[Alen]

I understand. But without seeing the code. It’s hard to diagnose the problem. I’ve [created the most basic starter theme](https://github.com/alenabdula/clean_wp) based off HTML 5 Boilerplate for you, if you are just starting out, keep it simple.

Refer to [WordPress Template hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy) and copy the index.php to fit whatever template you are targeting.

Hope that helps

-Alen

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