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Hello, I am David from Geek This
Today we are going to learn how to install a new theme in WordPress
This tutorial assumes you already have WordPress installed and a FTP Client
To begin, lets navigate to our website
Once you're on your website, you have to access the Administration Panel
To do so, it's your websites domain name / wp-admin
Now log in using the information you used in our last video
You are now in your Administration Panel
Lets navigate to the "Appearance" tab, and then to "Themes"
There are three different ways to install a new theme in WordPress
The first method I am going to show off is through the "Theme Browser"
I am going to install the newest theme, which is "Fanwood"
So I am going to hit "Install Now"
It will automatically install this to your WordPress installation
Before activating the theme go to "Live Preview"
We can now see the theme being used on our website
Since everything looks good, I can "Save & Activate"
This theme will now be used on my website
I can visit the website to confirm
That is the first way to install a theme to your website
The second way is to use a HTTP Upload
I am going to navigate to WordPress.org and find a new theme to download
Once you download your theme, navigate to where you saved it
Now navigate back to your website
Once on your website, you can go back to the "Administration Panel"
Since we are already logged in, you can use the "Admin Toolbar" on the top to go to "Themes"
Go back to "Install Themes", and "Upload"
Go to where you downloaded your theme from WordPress, and go to "Install Now"
Once again, we will go to "Live Preview", to make sure the theme looks correct
And since it does, "Save & Activate"
There is one last method I want to show you on how to install a theme
This method is using a FTP Client
Before that, I want to delete the themes I just installed
Go back to "Appearnace" and "Themes"
Find the themes you no longer want, and hit "Delete"
You can't delete the theme that is currently being used, so I am going to activate another theme I already have
Now open your FTP Client, I use FileZilla
Connect to your webhost
Once connected, navigate to your WordPress directory
Now continue to wp-content / themes
This is where we need to upload the theme
Go back to where we downloaded the theme from WordPress
Right click on the ZIP file, and "Extract All"
This dialog should appear with the location you want to extract the files to, and if you want to show the files once extracted
Now that the files are extracted, we can see the theme files
Make sure you upload the folder that the theme is in
Now that the files are uploaded, we can navigate back to our website
Now we should see the new theme once we refresh the page
And there we have it, you can "Activate" or "Live Preview" the new theme you just installed
Those are the three methods to install a WordPress them to your website.