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New Themes not available

valdersdan Member
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I downloaded a couple of new themes. Uncompressed them and then uploaded the new uncompressed folders to my website and into the Themes Folder. All the Themes are in the Themes folder including the default Themes that came with the initial ZenPhoto Download.
However, when I open ZenPhoto as Admin and try to add a new theme to my albums only the original themes are available. None of the New Themes are given as an option. What am I missing or doing wrong.
Thank you for your help.

Comments

  • sbillard Member
    Themes must have either a theme_description.txt or theme_description.php file for zenphoto to recognize them.
  • valdersdan Member
    OK where do I get either of these?
  • sbillard Member
    They should be included with the theme.
  • valdersdan Member
    I checked and they are in my folders for the 4 themes that came with ZenPhoto. However, the themes I downloaded do not have these files. I will delete what I have and try to download them again to see if my first attempt was corrupted.
    Thanks
  • lucian Member
    Hm... perhaps you can make them yourself.. just model it after the standard ones?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    The next question is: Where did you download that themes? If it was not from our themes page that could be the cause.
  • valdersdan Member
    It was from ZenPhoto. I got them from a link in my Themes edit page.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Some of the themes are third party and older and have not been updated by their authors. We did one update for 1.1. back then but now we only maintain the four included standard themes plus the zenpage default theme because of lacking resources to do that. So I would suggest to try what lucian suggests.
  • cmorin Member
    Even if they are old third party themes and not updated they still should be showing up in your admin - you may not have correct permissions (cmod) for the new theme folders you uploaded to?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    That is true...
  • starweaver Member
    I am having the same problem. I changed the permissions to 777 and I also created the theme php file and am still only seeing the initial four themes. Did you find a workaround or a solution for this?
  • sbillard Member
    Well, the reason for a theme not showing is that there is no description for it. I do not know what the "theme php" file you mention is. You must have either `theme_description.php` or `theme.txt` present in the folder. (The post above was not correct vs. the second file's name.)
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