WordPress is an open source app which really popular as the blog engine. WordPress app itself made with Hypertext Preprocessor or we called it PHP language and database program or well-known as MySQL. Both of them is an open source software. Especially, WordPress is one of CMS (Content Management System) which famous among Indonesian’s web hosting user. It just because this app was so friendly and rich of features. Besides that, business online is one of the necessary that can be completed by using this app. So, for people who just knew the WordPress CMS (Content Management System) now it’s a turn to use wordpress to make your site more interesting. Let’s follow me to know about how to install wordpress theme, 3 easy ways to install wordpress theme.
How to Install WordPress Theme – 3 Easy Ways to Install WordPress Theme
Actually, how to install wordpress theme is so easy, but if you are beginner in wordpress you need a tutorial to learn this. So that you can learn this easily and quickly. Here are 3 Easy Ways to Install WordPress Theme or change your WordPress Themes.
1. How to Install WordPress Theme From Appearance Menu
The first step that the hosting web users are searching for a theme in Online. You can click the “APPEARANCE” button, then choose “THEMES” and l then click “Add New”
If you have been clicking Add New button, you will find search column. On that’s column, you just need to choose the theme that you like. You can also click preview to know more about the theme. If you are interesting one of theme, just click “INSTALL” and after that click “ACTIVATE” to activate your theme. If you want to search a theme you can use Search Theme to search your theme.
2. How to Install WordPress Theme From Zip
The second way is, you can install wordpress theme from ZIP or by uploading ZIP (theme file). By using this way, you need to download theme file in a theme website for free or buy. The websites that you can use to get theme wordpress is themeforest or wen themes. You can get wordpress theme here for free and buy. Just download the theme file (ZIP) and then upload the theme to your site. If you want to know detail of how to install wordpress theme from zip, you can follow our tutorial below:
After you have been downloaded the theme that you want to install on your website, next step that you have to do is upload it to your wordPress site. And then for the next steps is same with the first way. It’s you go to Appearance – Themes – Add New and choose Upload Theme.
After that, click “Choose File” and look for your theme file (ZIP) and select it and click Open.
The next step click “Install Now” button and wait a minute until finish.
After you click install now, what would happen is the wordPress will upload the process file theme to the wordPress installation and here we called is the process of wordPress theme installation. After wordpress theme installation process had finished, click “Activate Now”, to activate the new theme.
3. How to Install WordPress Theme from cPanel
The last way that web hosting users can install wordpress theme from cPanel. In here way, you just need to enter to your cPanel and upload the file themes through File Manager in cPanel or FTP (File Transfer Protocol). For first step is you log in to your cPanel, and then click the “File Manager”.
- Please look for WordPress installation folder, then double click on the wp-content.
- Double click to the themes folder
- Here is the place all file WordPress themes will be put. Click the “Upload” icon to start the upload WordPress file themes process on ZIP format.
- Click on “Browse” icon to choose the file themes you have been downloaded. Keep watching on the indicator upload file on right below side.
- If the upload process has been finished, go back to the last tab on the browser, then click “Reload”
- Click on the zip file that has been succeeded on upload, then click “Extract”.
- Click on “Extract File(s)”. The extract process will be running and if it has done then on your screen there will appear display like this.
- And the last one you just need to activate the themes which mean via WordPress dashboard is look like this
In brief, actually applying WordPress themes was so easy. Through those above ways, you can modify your wordPress website display different than the other and looks more unique.
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