WordPress Ftp Access

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 at 4:55 am

How to install a WordPress theme

After installation account with your wordpress hosting provider, it's time to get a theme for your blog or page web. Decide what topic to come, depends primarily on its website subject. There are many free and paid themes to choose from. Free themes are easy to find however, can contain broken links, flash limited functionality and are often not flexible to change. Premium themes come with the full support of the supplier and are totally flexible to change.

So how do you install a theme? There are two ways to do:

Manually - Installation of an item manually is much easier to deal with the WordPress Installation of motor. Download the theme you want installed on your computer and unzip all files. Do not change the file names. Log into your hosting wordpress has ftp access, then go to the content and themes wp wp. There will be a list of available topics on his blog. Using an FTP client, upload the unzipped folder with the new theme wp themes folder. Once you complete the load, log into your wp admin area and go to appearance. You should be able to see all the available themes, and as the newly risen. Select the new theme and activate it. The new theme is installed. Now you can add plugins and configure widgets.

Automatically - Login to your wp admin area, go to appearance and widgets. If you know the subject you are planning to download, simply search in the library. Once found, click the installation and provide the ftp login information to your wordpress hosting account. Wait until the theme is installed and once the installation is complete go to the appearance and activate the theme. Automatic systems often fail due to broken links in the folder the issue, slow internet connection or server problem.

I am in favor of the manual way, just because it's easy, fast and hard to miss.

About the Author

Elias Chelidonis is founder of Hostforwordpress.com, a company specializing in wordpress hosting.

WordPress FTP Access