Broken Theme

mdini · Member · Jun 9, 2008 at 5:51 pm
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Hello to the WordPress World, I’m new to this forum and I need your valuable support.
It’s my first attempt to develop a theme from scratch so I decided to build it piece by piece, to understand what works and what doesn’t.
I started from the two basic files index.php and style.css.

Index.php is:

<html>
<head>
<title>First shot</title>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”style.css” type=”text/css” />
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<h1>IWI theme</h1>
</body>
</html>

and Style.css is:

/*
Theme Name: IWI
Theme URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description: Dumb theme
Author: Marco Dini
Author URI: –
Template: Brand new, no parent template
Version: 1.0

It’s a trial version just to start
*/

html,body{padding:0.7em 3em 0 3em;margin:0}
h1 {font-size:200%; color: Red;}

I called this theme “iwi” and moved the files in folder …wordpresswp-contentthemes
(yes, I’m working on a Windows platform).
When I open the Design administration panel, for some reason iwi appears listed as broken theme, as it was somehow incomplete.
What is wrong or what I missed in that theme?

Thanks a lot for your time.
raincoaster · Member · Jun 9, 2008 at 5:57 pm
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Afraid you’re in the wrong forum and need to be over at WordPress.com. Differences outlined here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=3700&replies=1
disposablerose · Member · Jun 9, 2008 at 6:37 pm
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This is wordpress.com. I think raincoaster means http://wordpress.org/support , but before you head over there, please check that style.css is called ‘style.css’ and not ‘Style.css’ as you mention. Filenames need to be lowercase.
raincoaster · Member · Jun 9, 2008 at 6:52 pm
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Yes, obviously I need more coffee. Thanks for catching that.

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