If you’re looking for some help, it’s important to provide as much context as possible so that people are able to assist you. Try to always mention: What’s your URL? Running on localhost What version of Ghost are you using? 3.11.0 ~ Latest Version What configuration? Default - it’s a fresh install …

Have you tried uploading the theme from the admin panel? It should handle everything for you, and you can see how the themes folder changes after uploading :slight_smile:

But that won’t allow my changes in a dev environment to automatically update on my localhost. Is there a way to get Ghost to read automatically from the content folder?

Ghost does automatically read the content/themes directory to list the available themes. The reason I suggested uploading the zip file is because you mentioned having issues adding the theme. If the theme uploads with no problems, you can make changes to the theme in the folder it’s saved. However, …

Yea, I appreciate your help. It was my bad at explaining. So, basically what I have done is, I cloned a github repo that I am working on and linked the contents (mklink) to a clean ghost local install done in a separate folder. However, I am getting the error 500 even though there is definitely a th…

Instead of the ghost install local contents, I used my own contents which has my own theme

So you’re replacing the contents of content/themes/capser with the contents of your theme?

Aah, that’s why… Your theme should live in content/themes/{name}! [image] How to install Ghost locally on Mac, PC or Linux A detailed local install guide for how to install the Ghost publishing platform on your computer running Mac, PC or Linux. Ideal for Ghost theme development. …

Ah, I already have that done though. It’s inside my content folder. Just the same way the path is but for some reason Ghost is unable to read it.

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The whole contents folder, so that would be content/

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