Hi guys,
In this video, we are gonna see how you can install a theme in WordPress.
Now Let’s say you have a Wordpress website, with a default design like
this and you want to change the design of your site, into something
which looks different, like this
You can do that easily by installing a WordPress theme
So Let's get started
First, let’s see, what is a WordPress theme?
A Wordpress theme is simply the design of your website
And if you want to change the design,
all you have to do is
To choose a theme you like and then install it on your site.
Now to install a WordPress theme, first, let’s take a look at our site.
This is the site in which we’re going to install our WordPress theme
So to install a theme in WordPress, there are 2 methods.
The first method is to install the theme,
by using the WordPress search.
So to install the theme using ‘Search’.
Let’s go to our WordPress dashboard
And then go to ‘Appearance’
And click ‘themes’
It will take you to this page
So this is the page where you can see the themes which are installed on your website
Now this is the current theme of your website
Now to change this
Just Click ‘Add New’
And You will get this page
where you can have different themes which you can install on WordPress
so just have a look at these Themes
and select the one you like
Or if you have a specific theme in your mind
then you can search for it by entering the name of the theme here
So, I'm going to search for the theme called ‘Lovecraft’
now if you click this theme,
you can see a preview of how it will look on your website
Now to install this theme
Let’s click ‘install’
And the theme will be installed on our website
Now to make this theme work on your site
You need to activate your theme
So let’s click ‘Activate’
And as you can see your theme has been activated.
So now if you go to your website
You can see that this is how it looked before
And now if you click refresh
You can see that our website design has changed
So This is how you can install a theme in WordPress.
Okay!
Now, Sometimes you might not find the theme which you need on the WordPress search.
In that case, how will you get a theme and install it on your website?
So now, let's look at the 2nd method, which is to find a WordPress
theme, using google search.
So to find the theme you want using Google, let’s open Google.
Now all you have to do is search for the type of site you’re looking
to build space WordPress Theme.
Now let’s say you want a Blog theme,
just enter, Blog space WordPress Theme
And, press enter.
And you will get results like this
Now, you can choose any result from here
I am going to choose this one
Here you will find different blog themes which you can
install on your website.
Have a look at all these themes and choose the one you want.
So this is how you can find a theme using the google search
Now once you have found a theme which matches your need
How do you install the theme?
Now let’s say you like this theme and you want to install it
If we click here & click download
You can see that we’re getting the theme in a .zip format.
Now how do you install this theme, on WordPress?
So next let's see how you can install a theme which comes in a zip format.
So to install this theme, on your WordPress site,
You need to upload this file, to WordPress.
So to upload this theme, let's go back to our WordPress dashboard
and then click Add New.
Now instead of using the search box, let's click ‘Upload Theme’.
Now click Choose file and select the theme which you downloaded.
And as you can see the theme has been selected.
now to install the theme,
Just click 'install.'
And then click 'activate'.
Now the theme will be activated on our website
So now if you go to your website,
You can see that this is how our site was before
Now, if we click refresh,
You can see that, our website design has changed
So this is how you can install a theme in WordPress, by uploading the zip file
So now that we know how to install themes in WordPress
Next, let’s see how you can delete themes which you’re not using on WordPress
Now if you go to your dashboard
you can see that, This is the theme which we installed on our website
Here as you can see, we have another theme which we do not use
Now to delete this theme, all you have to do is,
Just click it and click ‘delete’
As you can see here the theme is deleted
And this is how you can delete unused themes in WordPress.
By deleting the themes which you are not using, you can improve your
website’s security & performance.
So That’s it guys
This is how you can install a WordPress theme on your WordPress website
Now as WordPress has thousands of free & premium themes available, you can
do a lot of things with your website.
check out our list of top free themes for WordPress
by clicking the link below this video
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