why cant emacs 24 find a custom theme I added?

Question

My entire emacs setup is here

I loaded my init-theme.el file here

And supposedly that should make the darkclean theme available.

But when I type M-

Answer 1

I m new to emacs and wanted to add some custom themes and create my own as well.

first add this

(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes")

then add any new theme to that folder. This first did not work and when i used load-theme the themes in ~/.emacs.d/thems where not loaded.

the documentation says:

Each theme file is named THEME-theme.el, where THEME is the theme name.

so renaming darklean.el to darkclean-theme.el did the trick