Transcript - WordPress Tutorial – How To Install A WordPress Theme Through The WordPress Dashboard.
Hey Gang, This is Mika Kaltoft from Col323WebDesign.com.
In this quick tutorial, I will be teaching you how to install a WordPress Theme to your WordPress website. It is very easy, so let us get started.
First, go ahead and open your favorite internet browser and then go to google. (Go to the URL bar and type: www.google.com and click enter.)
Once you arrive at google, go to the google search bar and type in: WordPress Themes and click enter.
As you can see from the search result, there is a ton of WordPress Themes. Some of them you can buy and some you can download for free. (YEAH, everyone likes free stuff!!) We are going to the WordPress directory of themes where you can find Free WordPress Themes.
Here you can see the many different themes, so lets just choose the first theme and click download. It will take a few seconds to download.
Once it’s downloaded, go to the URL bar again and type in your WordPress website login information [www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin]. Go ahead and type in those information and click Log In.
Now you are logged in to your WordPress dashboard and from here, it is very simple. Go to the left sidebar, hover over Appearance and in the fly-out menu click on the link named Themes.
When you arrive at the next page, you will see all your current installed themes, but for now, go up to the top of the screen, where it says Install Themes and click on that link.
Then, click on the upload link. Now, you can see the folder needs to be in a zip format, so before we can upload the file, we are going to find the the WordPress theme we downloaded and make it a .zip file. If you are a Mac user, just right click on the folder and click on “Compress (folders name)” and there you go, it has now created a zip file. Then go back to your WordPress screen and click choose file. Find the folder located on your desktop and then click on it once and then click on the Choose button in the button once.
Now you can see that the file is read to be uploaded. Go ahead and click Install Now.
It may take a few minutes to upload the file, it all depend on the themes size. Sometimes the theme is big, like 10 mb, 20mb or 30mb, so have patience while it’s being uploaded.
Now the Theme is installed successfully. You can actually preview how your website is going to look before you activate the it, but I’m just going to click Activate since this tutorial is about how to install a theme.
There you go, now you can see the Current Theme is the theme we have installed. You can also see all the options, some themes have different options and functions, which we will get in to later in some tutorials, so for now lets just visit the website and see how it looks.
Our website now has a new theme that is ready to be used, edited and tested.
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