Theme not available from git clone

Themes
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I’m trying to develop a theme locally but I’m having issues with it displaying in the admin. My process has been so far:

ghost install local
cd into content/themes
git clone new theme into directory
ghost restart
Open Design section of admin to only see “Casper”

I can’t tell if it’s a caching issue or what, but there doesn’t appear to be any difference in the file structure vs. the Casper theme. Can anyone shed any light here?

2

Hi,
The steps you performed thats suppose to work…
There must be other issue… can you clone another theme & check ?

3

Yes I performed the same clone with the Starter theme and Massively and got the same result. Any way to debug what’s going on?

4

I am suspecting folder permission issue…
can you run ghost doctor & share the output of the command

5

This is with verbose output:

[16:42:55] Checking system Node.js version [started]
[16:42:55] Checking system Node.js version [completed]
[16:42:55] Checking current folder permissions [started]
[16:42:55] Checking current folder permissions [completed]
[16:42:55] Validating config [started]
[16:42:55] Validating config [completed]
[16:42:55] Checking memory availability [started]
[16:42:55] Checking memory availability [completed]
[16:42:55] Checking binary dependencies [started]
[16:42:55] Checking binary dependencies [completed]
6

OK, this seems to be an issue related to 3.29.0. When I installed 3.28.0 specifically the clone process worked. If I can track down the change I’ll submit an issue.

7

All seems okay

8

I will check this issue on 3.29.0 too

9

Hey @jhixson :wave:

The team are aware of the issue and we’re tracking it at Non-active themes are not listed on Design page · Issue #12118 · TryGhost/Ghost · GitHub. We hope to have a patch out soon, so watch this space :slightly_smiling_face:

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10

@jhixson We just released 3.29.1 which contains a fix for this issue - please update using Ghost-CLI :slightly_smiling_face:

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Awesome! Thanks for the quick rollout.