theme not showing.

[luke_mersh]

Good afternoon.

i know this has been asked before, but i am at an in pass.

I am following a course on udemy about creating themes and i also have the frontend dev docs with me.

I have magento 2.3 upload onto remote server and i have created the basic theme files to start with and they are located here:

..../vendor/magento/PixelPro

I have both theme.xml and registration.php files configured.

but i dont understand why when i go to themes in admin it doesnt show.

please help.

[Rahul Gupta]

@luke_mersh 

you are not using the correct path.

you have to create custom theme on the below path app/design/frontend/vendor/theme_name

and in your case vendor is magento and theme name is PixelPro.

So actual path would be app/design/frontend/magento/PixelPro

Please refer the below link.

https://www.magestore.com/magento-2-tutorial/3171-2/

Thanks 

[luke_mersh]

if i do that i get an error:

"There has been an error processing your request

Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.

Error log record number: 1341706161341"

path:.../app/design/frontend/PixelPro

[Rahul Gupta]

@luke_mersh after frontend you have to create one more folder.

Please check the actual path shared by me.

[luke_mersh]

so it would be:

app/design/frontend/Magento/PixelPro    ?

[Rahul Gupta]

@luke_mersh yes

[luke_mersh]

still not showing.

path: l/app/design/frontend/Magento/PixelPro

[luke_mersh]

my theme dir. is

pixelpro/themepro/

so there are 2 directories, themepro is inside pixelpro.

[luke_mersh]

i was wondering if in the theme.xml the parent theme can be Luma, so <magento/luma> or does it have to be blank?

[Rahul Gupta]

@luke_mersh then no need to add the folder magento.