“The requested theme does not exist” – WordPress Theme editor not loading
Had this one on wordpress blog of my friend who had this new theme installed.This theme was little more customized by the owner of the theme that the published one as my friend contacted him for some more customizations in this theme.
This problem came only after this extra customization and started reporting “The requested theme does not exist” when we wanted to use theme editor to make certain changes.
This is how we approached the problem :
a. We checked php error logs and foung nothing there.
b. Googled the phrase and found that this is some problem with the name of theme, which is written in style.css file. The person who changed the theme template did some changes in the name of theme and added some links and html over there. We tried cleaning that up and finally it was just like the name of the default theme. We matched almost all the things in theme name, theme link and description but it was not working for us.
c. Hit and trial started with Google and found that we needed to refresh the theme information i.e. theme name is cahced somewhere once you activate any theme. We did selected default theme of wordpress and then
selected our theme back and it worked.
d. Later I confirmed that theme name is saved in WP_options table when you activate any theme and that theme name is used while we initiate Theme editor.
e. So final solution is check the name of your theme which is in style.css file under theme folder and select some other theme and select your theme again and it should work.
Cheers!!
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Thank you so much. with all the rubbish filled in other blogs, you provided the simplest and best option. Worked like magic. My theme editor is back on track.