How to Add Templates to Your Website
Many Web site tools use templates in the creation of sites in order to facilitate dynamic content. The content management industry uses templates and themes to keep pages looking cohesive while displaying content in a variety of ways. WordPress, in particular, uses templates (or what they call themes) in this way. You can add new templates to your WordPress Web site quickly and easily.
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Instructions
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Open Internet Explorer by clicking Start>>All Programs>>Internet Explorer. Have your new template saved to your desktop. If you do not have a new template, you can visit WordPress.org, locate a theme you would like, click download to the right of the selected template, select "Save file" in the save window, and select "Desktop" in the left menu of the save location window. Then click "Save".
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Enter the URL of the FTP site you want to access just like you would for any site. But instead of starting the URL with "http," start it with "ftp." This will open the main folder for your site.
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Click on "Page" at the top right side of your tool bar. See the image here if you have trouble locating it. Select "Open FTP site in Windows Explorer." This will open a login window. If it opens a window that is empty or only contains a folder called "pub," right-click in the blank area, and select "Login as..." and it will open the login window.
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Enter your FTP user account login information in the login window, and click "Log on." The window should now display all the folders and files in the main folder of the FTP site you have accessed.
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Locate your folder titled "public_html" and double-click it. Select folders wp-content>>themes. This will open your themes folder and should show all templates currently installed.
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Return to your desktop and select the folder containing your new template. Press "Control + X" to cut the folder and return to the themes folder on the FTP site. Press "Control + V" to paste the template folder within the themes folder for your WordPress Web site.
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Close all windows, and log in to the admin side of your WordPress Web site. Click on Appearance>>Themes to get to the template admin area. Your new theme should be visible here.
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Tips & Warnings
Remove unnecessary or unused templates to increase disk space.
Be aware that anything deleted or added while using Windows and Internet Explorer FTP services will affect your Web site. Unlike FTP client software, there is no upload button to finalize things.
