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How to change the Theme of your Wordpress site
Wordpress, Blogging Tools and Services July 10th, 2007
Visited 709 times, 1 so far today- Go to Themes.Wordpress.net, the official theme directory
- Using the sorting options on the left hand side, choose a theme of your choice and preference.
- Once you have selected a theme for your website you need to download it. To download the theme you will see a link called “download” you need to click that link
- The file download dialogue box will appear
- Click save
- The save as window will appear. Selected the directory and folder you wish to save the zip file to and then click save
- You now need to unzip the folder. To do this go to windows explorer and go to where you saved the zip file.
- Right click the zip file and extract the file.
- Now using your ftp program or file Manager in Cpanel, upload the theme folder to your /www/wp-content/themes
- Once that’s done Login to your Wordpress administration panel
- Select Presentation from the navigation menu
- You will see the current theme along with list of available themes as well as the theme you downloaded
- Simply select the theme with the click of a mouse button and that’s it. You new theme is activated in seconds.
- There is an option to view site in the top left hand corner if you want to see what your site looks like now.
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