{"id":61,"date":"2025-06-25T06:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/?p=61"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:58:13","slug":"theme-is-missing-the-style-css-stylesheet-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/theme-is-missing-the-style-css-stylesheet-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A common issue that can occur when installing a WordPress themes is&nbsp;<em>\u201cThe package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;error message being displayed when uploading or activating the theme:<br><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One of the reasons you may receive this error is if you have uploaded the incorrect file.&nbsp;You have two options for downloading your theme.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"248\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8216;All files &amp; documentation&#8217; (full zip folder). You will need to extract and locate the installable WordPress file.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"908\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/missing-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/missing-2.jpg 908w, https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/missing-2-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/missing-2-768x205.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8216;Installable WordPress file only&#8217;.<br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"246\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/missing-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please make sure you are uploading&nbsp;<strong>only&nbsp;<\/strong>the installable theme which is called NameOf Theme.zip. If you upload ALL these files you will receive an error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common issue that can occur when installing a WordPress themes is&nbsp;\u201cThe package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.\u201d&nbsp;error message being displayed when uploading or activating the theme: One of the reasons you may receive this error is if you have uploaded the incorrect file.&nbsp;You have two options for downloading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-get-started"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elango.steelthemes.com\/ecom\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}