{"id":11287,"date":"2017-01-27T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/?p=11287"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:39:33","slug":"error-the-package-could-not-be-installed-the-theme-is-missing-the-style-css-stylesheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/knowledge-base\/error-the-package-could-not-be-installed-the-theme-is-missing-the-style-css-stylesheet","title":{"rendered":"Error: The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common issue that may occur with users new to installing WordPress themes is a \u201c\u00a0The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.\u201d error message.<br \/>\nIt is always displayed when trying to upload the theme. This is because the theme download package on ThemeForest includes additional files to the theme such as the documentation, license etc.<\/p>\n<p>This is because the theme download package on ThemeForest includes additional files to the theme such as the documentation, license, import files, plugins zip-files etc.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12915\" src=\"http:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/style.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"975\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/style.png 975w, https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/style-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/style-768x541.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To solve this simply unzip the theme package <strong>themeforest-11776839-ronneby-highperformance-wordpress-theme.zip<\/strong>\u00a0archive and install only the inner theme archive.<\/p>\n<p>More details on correct theme installation can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/first-steps\/getting-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regards, DFD Support Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common issue that may occur with users new to installing WordPress themes is a \u201c\u00a0The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.\u201d error message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[35,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12919,"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions\/12919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnbtheme.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}