Having Theme Installation problem in wordpress

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websity

Newbie

Sep 1, 2010

18

1

• Jun 13, 2011

• #1

I have downloaded various themes for wordpress but when i am installing those theme through wordpress theme installer this gives a error message
"
Installing Theme from uploaded file: Education-Wordpress-Theme.rar

Unpacking the package?
Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature"

 

flexnds

Power Member

Jan 4, 2010

643

699

• Jun 13, 2011

• #2

Could be a number of things

bad theme
file within a file.. This i probably the main issue.. You'll need to find the core files and unzip and then rezip just the core files and try to upload that way..

Or just FTP em..

 

H

Hydro

BANNED

May 24, 2011

222

151

• Jun 13, 2011

• #3

Unzip the .rar and upload it via FTP, sometimes the download files come with the theme inside a subfolder so it may give you an error if you use the WP admin panel to try and install it.

Themes go here: /wp-content/themes

 

jfoawn

Registered Member

Mar 8, 2011

55

6

• Jun 13, 2011

• #4

It might even be the .rar format itself. I think wp says .zip try extracting an compressing as .zip

 

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zogbia

Newbie

Jun 13, 2011

2

0

• Jun 13, 2011

• #5

I tend to just do it manually it doesnt take long just unrar, copy and paste folder into /public_html/wp-content/themes/ and then activate theme in /wp-admin/themes.php