Treehouse-portfolio theme not showing up? Please Help !

Hi Peaches,

Please explain what exactly you have done so far, So we can take a look and help :)

Ok I already have Mamp installed and running. I've also already installed wp locally .

Under preferences in MAMP my Web Server is set to my htdocs folder that is in my

MAMP application. I am in my local wp (localhost), I created treehouse-portfolio folder in

the htdocs under the themes folder. I have created , styles.css, index.php and

functions.php. I saved them, according to the video after they,ve been saved the new

theme should show up under preferences/themes. Mine does not show up. I am sure that

I am missing something small but, I do not know what it is yet.

/* Theme Name: Treehouse Portfolio Theme Author: Treehouse Author URI: http://teamtreehouse.com/ Description: A post modern, simple, responsive portfolio theme designed in WordPress Theme Development course at Treehouse. Version: 1.0 License: GNU General Public License v2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Tags: black, white, light, one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, flexible-width, fluid-layout, responsive-layout, custom-menu, featured-images

At Treehouse we believe that you should reach for your dreams. You are welcome to use this theme privately or commercially you want to help accomplish those dreams! */

This is the meta data that I have in styles.css

I believe so. I have no problem starting from scratch. When you say proper

permissions do you mean for the user ? Because my user has all permissions.

Or what steps do you suggest I take ?

What I have noticed is that my wp install is differnt from Zac's own in the way that it does not ask me about my database. It skips that part entirely.

It is not allowing me to access it. I am going to start this section over and let you know what happens. In the first video that showed you haw to set the path the path was different

In this video we're using the htdocs path I did switch to it but maybe something went wrong in the switching. I will try this approach and let you know. I will once again try to access the path from terminal.

No it wasn't I will correct that now. I was also researching the setup process as setting up a local database didn't show up. I found that I needed to edit my wp-config.php folder to include the database information which I just did. I'm about to try everything again I will update this as soon as I am done.

Okay I built the theme in the proper folder and I did make the changes to the wp-config.php folder. I followed the instructions from the video. The theme is now showing up under Broken Themes. Says that the stylesheet is missing:

Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name Description treehouse-portfolio Stylesheet is missing.

But I do have the style.css saved with the metadata that i've listed above.

Okay I got the theme to show up. I deleted the style.css file that I had, remade it, added some random text to my index.php file. Saved all refreshed the page and now it's there. :D thanks guys !

Yes, you may need an index.php as well as a style.css file.

Mine wasn't showing up either...silly mistake....I was editing the project download files instead of my localwp.com folder. All is well!

Hey! I was having the exact same issue! I saved the file and in filezilla i manually transferred it into my public html. Will this give my problems down the road?