What after installing wordpress? Make it nice, so look attractive. Theme is one of the important things to change after instaling wordpress. You can refer to my previous post on “10 things to do after installing wordpress” and “Top 7 blogging tips” Have no idea what to do? Let’s do it together.
- WordPress Theme Resource
- Install and change wordpress theme
1. From Admin panel. (Only for 2.9 and later versions)
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WordPress Theme Resource
Installing wordpress theme is easy, but to choose one from thousand themes will be little hard. We made list of theme providers, so it will be easy for you to hunt right theme for your blog.
If you are making blog only for family and friend or for fun, I will prefer you to go for free theme. Free theme will have features like free.
Here is List of Free theme Providers.
- Web2Feel
Premium theme have lot of feature and option to edit in theme directly from admin panel. You don’t need to code a lot. If you are professional blogger, then I definitely recommend you to choose it.
1. DIYthemes (Thesis theme)
2. woothemes
3. Themeforest
If you are using WordPress 2.9 or higher, you have this option. If you are using old version or want theme other than wordpress list or from wordpress theme center, then use my “Install wordpress theme from cpanel”.
Log in to wordpress admin panel and Go to Appearance>>Add New Themes
Refer to below image:
Choose option according to your choice. Then click find theme. You will see two option, Install and Preview. Click preview and look how does your blog will look. Click install if you like that theme. Click activate. You are done..!
Upload wordpress theme from Admin Panel
WordPress 2.9 came up with lot of new feature and one of them is to upload theme from admin panel. Before, we have to go to cpanel and have to upload it and then we can choose theme. But now it is very simple.
Log in to your wordpress admin panel. Go to Appearance>>Add new theme. Click on Upload.(refer to image)
Browse you theme and press “Install Now”. After completing install, it will ask you option preview and activate. Preview theme and if you like it, click activate. It was easy…!
Install WordPress theme from cpanel
Download theme whichever you like from above theme provider.
Log in to cpanel using your username and password. This can be obtained when you buy hosting.( This is not wordpress username and password.)
Go to File Manager. After that, go to public_html/wp-content/themes/. If you have installed wordpress on http://www.yourdomain.com/blog then go to public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/
You will see page where you can find similar icons like below image.
Click on upload icon. It will redirect you to another page. Browse your file. It will upload itself whenever you select your file.(Refer to image)
Close that window and go to pubic_html/wp-content/themes/ or public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/. Select file name and click extract (See number 2).
You are almost done! Go back to wordpress admin page, click on Appearance>>Themes and select your theme. You can preview and if you like it, activate it. You can find small activate text on right hand upper side.
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