How to Install a New WordPress Template

Locating a cool new theme in WordPress can be one of the easiest tasks that you will ever encounter. Now, getting that theme to a usable state can be a very complicated task indeed. The following several steps will be help you load your new theme in wordpress.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

1. Download your new theme.

2. Unzip the new theme onto your harddrive

3. Start-up your favorite FTP client. If your lost at this point, simply search eHow for how to use an FTP client.

4. With your FTP client up, log-in to your WordPress blog site.

5. Create a directory on your Web server wp-content/themes/example. Example is your new theme name and the base file that you just created.

6. Upload the theme. This will be the unzipped version that you placed on your hard drive in step 2.

7. Now log-out of your FTP client and shut it down.

8. Log-in to your admin account on Wordpress and go to Presentations.

9. Click on the new theme.

Tips & Warnings

• By utilizing an FTP client you are accessing your Web folder structure directly. Make sure that you don't alter other themes and that you create the folder example given in step 5 of the instructions.