You’ve just downloaded or purchased a super awesome theme and you go to install it and see the lovely message below:
Well your first thought might be…
“the developer screwed me and gave me a theme without a stylesheet”
Of course it is possible the zip file you received didn’t have a style.css file, but more likely the issue is you didn’t upload the root theme folder.
Missing Stylesheet Error Solution
Locate the folder you have of the theme on your desktop and open it (if it is zipped, unzip and open it). Now when you open it you should see all your files in there, if not the theme is likely in a sub-directory. For example our premium themes all have the theme inside an “Installable Theme” folder. Generally it’s somewhere obvious and the actual theme folder will likely be named the same as the theme. Once found zip it and upload via WordPress or upload the unzipped folder via FTP.