On a fresh new install of wordpress (Installed: 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u4) on my Debian wheezy machine, I added a new theme that I downloaded from the interwebs. I unpacked it into /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes and some example new paths are:
/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes/business-pro/ /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes/business-pro/index.php However the new theme does not show up in the admin (visiting url: http://mdowney/wp-admin/themes.php) I expected to see the new theme there and it is not. There is only the following two themes: twentytwelve twentythirteen After some fishing around, I concluded that in fact, wordpress admin is not looking in /var/lib/wordpress/wp-contents for the themes. Maybe once a theme is installed and some pages use it (I wouldn't know, I haven't got that far yet), then wordpress uses that path, but the admin itself does not. I am doing to try what a person above did, which is to copy the theme into /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes. A test I did do was to move /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes to themes.aside, (while leaving /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes in place) and indeed, there is now only one theme twentythirteen and it has nothing to customize (the customize page has no fields on it, although wp-admin does give you a page for customizing. I'm guessing that page should have several choices like background colour, text colour for certain elements, etc). So I hope this helps to understand this bug. Aha, indeed, adding a symlink from /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes/business-pro -> /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes/business-pro results in the theme showing up in the admin. I will be wary of the symlink, hopefully I won't forget that it is iffy if I run into trouble when not using the admin. Hmm, I wonder if it is the apache config that makes symlinks "troublesome" according to some reports ... That can be fixed in the apache config. Although I suppose it's not terribly secure, esp. if you allow editing of the themes from the web interface. -- }{ Centre for Research and Experimental Development in Informatics Libre Brenda J. Butler b...@credil.org +1 613 693 0684 #3202 F3018 - 283 Alexandre Taché Gatineau (QC) J9A 1L8 CANADA Sustainable Innovation // Innovation Durable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
