Well, it seems that their download.wordpress.org server isn't very functional anymore. However, there are still plenty of themes available at http://themes.wordpress.net

The only annoying thing about them, is that if you download them with wget as shown earlier in this thread, you will get a filename like download.php?theme=1234. So you way want to use the -O filename.zip option to give it a nicer filename:

wget -O psptheme.zip http://themes.wordpress.net/download.php?theme=2009

Using wget is by no means required. Its just the quickest way to get something straight on the JumpBox. You could download the theme to your desktop computer and then use SFTP(/SCP) to copy it to the admin home directory on your JumpBox.

Good luck!

Austin

It seems Wordpress has changed their page structuring to follow theirs more, everytime I try this and variants of these instructions I get a ,

"Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org[72.233.56.139]:80
wget: server returned error 401: HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized"

Please advise, standard themes suck and don't have time to customize my own

QUOTE (wardriver64 @ 2007-05-25 07:16:45) I'm using the jumpbox-wordpress on vmware. How do I upload new themes to it?

Thanks

Looks like us chickens are stuck without help.

Hi,
This isn't very convenient at this point and we are working on improving this but for most themes its not too bad.

[li] First you would need to enable shell access to the JumpBox following the instructions provided here:
http://www.jumpbox.com/docs/enableshell
[li] Then find the download link URL of the theme zipfile by right clicking on the download link and chosing "Copy Link" or "Copy Shortcut". It should look something like this:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/almost-spring.zip
[li] Then ssh into your JumpBox as the admin user (using whatever SSH software you may have)
[li] Now download the theme zipfile to the admin home directory on the JumpBox using wget and the link you found above:

wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/almost-spring.zip

[li] now change directories into the theme directory

cd /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/themes/

# or 

cd /var/data/wordpress/wp-content/themes/

[li] Now you have to unzip the file you downloaded earlier, it is still in the admin directory, and you HAVE to do this as root so do this, except put in your correct filename:

sudo unzip ~/almost-spring.zip 

You will be asked for a password, this is still the admin users password, the same one you used to log in.
[li] Now the theme is in the theme directory and you should be able to select it in the WP admin pages as described here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Selecting_the_Active_Theme

These instructions might not work for all themes. The main point is, you need to get the theme contents in a subdirectory of the /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/themes/ directory. Good luck.

I'm using the jumpbox-wordpress on vmware. How do I upload new themes to it?

Thanks