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Need help in correcting this error message in my dashboard.

"ERROR: The themes directory is either empty or doesn’t exist. Please check your installation."

Only the home page comes up, but when I try to click on the other pages, I get the error message above as well.

Can anyone help? Thanks

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Check your permalink struture in wordpress admin. If u changed ur permalink from default to other struture it will be display like now. – user18200 Jul 15 '12 at 13:55
I'd say the first step is to check whether or not /wp-content/themes actually exists and contains at least one theme. If it does not, try re-installing WordPress. Otherwise, check to make sure your server permissions are correct. – Joseph Jul 15 '12 at 14:08
how do i do this? Sorry I am so new to this... – jack co Jul 15 '12 at 15:08

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You need to connect to your server via ftp and change to the directory where wordpress is installed. In wp-content/themes there has to be at least one directory with a complete theme. If there isn't one, you could install one in backend design -> themes -> install (may type in twenty eleven or something else).
If there is at least one theme in your theme directory you should check permissions of the files. It should work on setting files and folders in /themes/ to 775 (how you can do this depends on your ftp-software).

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