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The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet

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  • June 2, 2019 at 12:35 pm #491464
    wingkeel
    Member

    Hi all, I bought and downloaded the Genesis Framework and came up with an error when installing it into WordPress. I'm a beginner and figured I wasn't the only one out there. I'm hoping this post will help other newbies to WordPress and StudioPress Genesis Framework Theme that might also receive this message and not know what to do.

    The error I received was:
    "Unpacking the package…
    Installing the theme…
    The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.
    Theme installation failed."

    This was on a late-2011 iMac 27" with 16GHz memory and 55GB freespace on C:Drive. The first time I tried to download Genesis, Safari unzipped the file. I re-compressed the directory but apparently, something went wrong. After deleting the original re-compressed file and emptying trash, I uploaded the Framework ZIP file again and this time it worked fine.

    Dr. Terry L Southern
    [email protected]

    June 2, 2019 at 12:41 pm #491465
    wingkeel
    Member

    I forgot to mention that to prevent Safari from automatically unzipping files on an iMac, go to Safari/Preferences/General Tab, and uncheck "Open "safe" files after downloading "safe" files include movies, pictures, sounds, PDF and text documents, and archives." at the bottom of the tab-page. This will prevent Safari from automatically unzipping compressed files.

    Dr. Terry L Southern
    [email protected]

    June 3, 2019 at 5:00 am #491476
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    The Genesis Framework should not be used without a child theme. What child theme are you using?

    When you install Genesis, you install both the framework and child theme. You activate the child theme, not the framework.

    Regards,

    Victor
    https://victorfont.com/
    Call us toll free: 844-VIC-FONT (842-3668)
    Have you requested your free website audit yet?

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