Solving the “Template Is Missing” Error

July 31, 2007

Apparently this is something new with the latest version of WordPress, but I have found that if you edit the theme’s stylesheet to remove the first line, like so:


/*
Template: blank-stare < remove this line!
Theme Name: Blank Stare
Description: Even more minimalist than Zen! Content only front page.
Author: Joni Mueller for Pixelita Designs LLC
Author URI: http://www.pixelita.com
*/

The error message goes away. Let me know if you encounter a theme where this fix does not work for you. And thanks, everyone, for downloading (or attempting to download!) our themes!

Written by Joni · Filed Under Latest 

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4 Responses to “Solving the “Template Is Missing” Error”

  1. David Stembridge on December 2nd, 2007 12:24 pm

    I did get an older theme of yours to load using this (The Barn Ported to WP 2.1)
    but… it shows the current theme to be WordPress Default 1.6 by Michael Heilemann…
    any ideas?
    Thanks!!!

  2. David Stembridge on December 2nd, 2007 12:35 pm

    The theme can be found here:
    http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1549/the-barn-ported-to-wp-21/

  3. Dan on December 11th, 2007 8:31 pm

    not working on tech-bytes-reloaded which I wouldn’t mind so much, I would just uninstall it and go find a theme that works, except that now i can’t delete it either. getting a 550 error no such file, though clearly there is one. ughhhh.

  4. Bel on February 10th, 2008 4:02 pm

    The Miss Liberty theme does the same for me, says that the template is missing, I removed the first line like it says above but I still got the same error message.

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