Comments on: WordPress Theme Preview Doesn’t Work? Here’s Why

By: Vinny

Vinny — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:42:30 +0000

Thanks for giving this answer, I’ve been staring blankly at my white preview screen! We love you google search!

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:27:56 +0000

Actually, it is. You are talking about something completely different. If you don’t have screenshot.png in the theme folder, the screenshot of the theme won’t appear in the dashboard. It won’t, however, have any effect on whether the theme preview shows up or not. The theme preview uses actual HTML to display a preview, not a static image.

By: rplot

rplot — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:56:16 +0000

Actually, it’s not in naming the folder. I’t that the themes that show a preview have a “screenshot.png” in the folder. Check it out.

By: Why Certain Themes Won’t Preview Properly in WordPress | bavotasan.com

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:10:14 +0000

[...] tested removing parts that I thought might be the cause and no luck. Luckily enough I stumbled upon WP Contempo and found a solution. They state that WordPress does not like spaces in their theme folders. So [...]

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:03:03 +0000

Yeah, it took me a while to figure it out. One of those little things that doesn’t really matter, but it’s still nice to know the actual reason why it wasn’t working.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:59:32 +0000

Thanks for this it helped a lot. Vaughan van Dyk is right, I just figured out that the hyphen doesn’t allow the theme to be previewed. Nice job here!

By: polochen

polochen — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:50:27 +0000

My images not showing was caused by theme folder permissions. I use BlueHost and I found that the permissions setting was different from the ones showing image (default and classic). With my FTP client software I changed the permissions to be the same as default theme and ….VALA!!

By: Vaughan van Dyk

Vaughan van Dyk — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:29:15 +0000

Thanks for this! And it seems it also doesn’t like it if you have a hyphen (-) in the name of the folder. I was really worried it was caused by how I’d built my theme.

All the best.
Vaughan

By: glen wooters

glen wooters — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:54:22 +0000

Dear Sir:
I am newbie. I uploaded SEO pack to the plugin-directory in word press 2.7.1
Also a theme.
I t will work fine till i leave the site and when i come back to the site nothing works. I activate the sites but they will not stay activated.
Can you help me with this or tell me some one that can help me.
Thank you.
Glen Wooters

By: gary

gary — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:58:10 +0000

Thanks very much for reminding me of this little quirk. It was getting on my nerves a bit.