Wordpress says that no themes are installed

[mattymess]

I'm using wordpress locally for development at some url. Let's call it 'website.dev', which is on port 8080 served by MAMP.

In wp-config, I have

/**
 * Set custom paths
 *
 * These are required because wordpress is installed in a subdirectory.
 */
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ':8080/wp');
define('WP_HOME',    'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ':8080');
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', __dir__ . '/content');
define('WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ':8080/content');

My folder structure also matches this, and yet Wordpress is telling me I have no themes. I verified that I have all the default themes in /content/themes

Did I miss something??

[wesleytodd]

That all looks right as far as I can tell. Although I have not tested with MAMP. I guess it is possible that the line with __dir__ is not evaluating correctly. Maybe you can try var_dumping that and make sure it is correct.

Also, maybe you can try using vagrant and see if you get the same issue. Also, I would recommend using vagrant anyway because it is just better..wink wink.

[wesleytodd]

Also make sure to check your file permissions, that could cause them to not appear as well, if they were not owned by the right user.

[mattymess]

Will try these suggestions as soon as I get back to this project and let you know how it goes.

[furins]

I had the same issue (on MAMP, PHP 5.2) and I solved it replacing

define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', __dir__ . '/content');

with

define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', dirname(__FILE__) . '/content');

since it seems that __dir__ is available only for PHP >= 5.3 (http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php). Hope it helps!

[wesleytodd]

Awesome, thanks @furins. I guess we could consider changing that for backward compat. Maybe you could put it in a PR?