Now that you’ve learn’t how to manage themes for WordPress, its time to learn how to customize your theme design.
This video shows you how to:
- Find a free theme from the Official WordPress theme directory
- Install a theme using the built in theme installer in your theme admin screen
- Upload and install a premium theme which you have purchased and saved to your local computer
- Install any type of theme you have downloaded to your local computer
Lets also take a look at 2 other ways to install a new theme to your WordPress installation:
Installing a New Theme Using FTP
Sometimes you may need to use FTP as your theme developer doesn’t allow you to simply upload it using the built in installer in your admin panel.
- Download theme to your desktop and extract the files
- Create a new directory on your server named themes at this location wp-content/themes
- Upload the entire unzipped folder from your desktop on your local computer to this new directory
- Login to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Appearance > Themes and activate the theme
Installing a Theme Using cPanel
If you don’t like or don’t have an FTP program, you can use the built in File Manager your web host provides you in cPanel.
- Download your new theme to your local computer
- Navigate to File manager in cPanel and find this location in your public_html directory: public_html/wp-content/themes
- Upload the zipped folder into the themes directory
- Extract the zipped folders contents into your themes directory
- Login to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Appearance > Themes and activate the theme
Next Video
Time to check out how to use widgets in WordPress.