WordPress Manually Setting of Customized Templates
Here we are will discussing about who are the beginners or moving from blog or other hosting sites on WordPress when you are doing in setting in themes at WP than there are many problem begins. So don't worry your solution done in here. Let's begin to do the step by step work.
- Via dashboard
- cPanel/File Manager
- FTP
Through to WordPress (WP) Dashboard
If you have obtained the .zip file of the WordPress theme you are
trying to install. Then this is the easiest and most suited method. All
you need to do is, go to
WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload
Just upload the .zip file, and then
activate the theme from the following screen. If somehow, the theme
installation fails by this method. Then it could be due to the following
reason. .zip doesn’t include the direct theme folder.
Extract the .zip using WinRar or any other
tool you have. If the .zip is correct, then you should see only a single
folder(theme name), and that folder should contain a file called
style.css). If you are seeing something else, then the .zip is not
suitable for upload.
You need to look inside that folder to find
another folder by the theme name, containing the style.css file. If you
find such a folder, compress it as .zip and upload it. It should work.
cPanel/File Manager
Most Web Hosts Offer you some sort of
Control Panel(cPanel, Directadmin, Kloxo). cPanel being the Most common.
But, all these are almost similar. Each has a file manager option.
Go to the File Manager. Navigate to your Site’s folder. Once you are there, you need to further go to wp-content > themes. Somewhere
towards the top of the screen, you will find and upload option. Using
that option, upload the theme’s .zip file. Once you have uploaded the
zip, it will show up under the themes folder. Extract the .zip. Now you
will see a folder by the name of your theme. Verify that the folder
contains the style.css file. If there is no such file, then do the steps
we did in the previous method.
After uploading and extracting the theme in
the file manager. You need to go to your WordPress Dashboard to
Activate the theme. If the above process was done correctly, your theme
will show up in the list of installed themes.
FTP
This is a relatively slow process, but widely used. Mostly, because
many hosts do not offer the above options. Especially, those who are
running their sites on VPS/Dedicated servers. To Use this method you
need to Install a FTP Client on your Computer. Popular FTP Clients are
Transmit(Mac OSX), FileZilla(Windows).
Before continuing with this post, you should google out the basics about using an FTP Client.
Once, you have logged in to your server via the FTP Client, you need
to now again Navigate to your Site’s folder, and go to
wp-content/themes/. Once you are there, you need to upload the extracted
theme directly. Note that, earlier we were uploading .zip. But, now we
need to upload the extracted theme. This process will take some time as
the FTP client deals with the files one by one.
Once you have done this, you theme will show up in the list of installed themes. Activate it and Enjoy it.
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