I’m trying to customize a HTML5 Boilerplate WordPress theme to develop my own theme, but I can’t get any functions to work: my index.php file starts with
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html <?php language_attributes(); ?> class="no-js ie6"> <![endif]-->
But when I view source, the document ends with <html. It doesn’t generate a fatal error (“Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/micha162/public_html/index.php on line 1“), as it would on a server without WordPress installed. I’ve included all the required WordPress files and I can log into wp-admin just fine. I’m storing it on a subfolder but I’ve redirected the Site Address to the root folder, where index.php and header.php are installed. What could be going wrong?
You need to install wordpress themes into the theme directory, not the root directory.
The theme directory is:
/wp-content/themes.