This is a tutorial about how to install WordPress themes into a standard WordPress website.
Up here on the left we have the WordPress website we’ve created, which is blank from
our last video.
In fact, there was a sequence of three videos.
One showing hosting through GoDaddy.
Another showing how to buy a domain name or URL through GoDaddy and attach it to the hosting.
And the third, once you’ve done that, showing how to do WordPress install using that GoDaddy
account.
That leaves us here.
On the left-hand side, we have the front of the website that the public sees - timlevyandassociates.com,
in this case, which is all empty and looking pretty basic.
And over here we have Login to WordPress, which known as the back-end.
This where everything interesting happens.
Let’s login.
When you first login to a WordPress website, it has all kind of interesting options here.
I’m going to get rid of them all.
I’m not worried about all of that automatic stuff.
This is a good base point here.
What we want to do is install a theme.
So where are they actually?
Click on this button so we can see the left-hand navigation a bit more clearly.
What you’ll see here is under appearance, you’ll see Themes.
That’s where we’re going.
What you’ll see is that the standard themes, which were written by WordPress over the course
of the last three years, are there.
And this one here 2015 is active.
But we want to upload something new.
You click on Add New.
When we do that it starts to show us all other things, which are all available to you.
But in our case, we actually bought one from the website called ThemeForest and I just
want to show you this.
We have another tutorial on this, feel free to go YouTube.
Type in the ThemeForest tutorial, you’ll find it there.
Or click on a link in the description below.
The reason I like ThemeForest themes is I know that they’ve been worked on over the
course of time and improved and improved.
In our particular case we’re using a theme called Avada which is the number 1 top selling
WordPress theme of all time.
You can see that if you want to buy it, that’s $58.
And you can install it which we’ve just done offline.
So we’ve got that Avada theme ready to go and download it as zip file.
We go over here on the right and we click on Upload Theme.
We hit browse, we can go find the file and here it is.
And that file gets installed.
Now amazingly, that is it.
That theme is now being installed.
With the Avada theme in particular, there are a few more steps to go through because
it’s got some additional plugins and bits and pieces.
I’ll show you that briefly.
Installing a theme is as quick as that, no matter what theme it is.
Let’s pause for a moment while this continuous uploading, I’ll come back in a second.
That was probably 20 seconds which shows you how impatient I am.
Now we got this thing, we hit activate.
As soon as we hit activate, that theme becomes live.
What it’s also telling you here is, it wants to install some extra plugins.
So in this case, let’s allow it.
To do that, we go into a system.
We add this thing called Fusion Core which adds basically quite dramatic functionality.
Then activate it.
Then we’ll add this one here called Layer Slider which is one of those sliding systems
that allows images to slide and move around and do fun, animated thing.
We’ll activate it too.
And then the last one it wants us to play with is this one here which is another slider
called the Revolution Slider.
Certainly, this is one that we use all the time at the top of most of our homepages and
some of our other pages too.
So once we got all of those done, now Avada is happy.
Then we go back to the dashboard.
We see that’s done and wants us to activate the Revolution Slider because I forgot to
do that, my bad.
And then click on Activate.
It really does walk you through what’s meant to happen.
Now if we go over here to the website, which you’ll recall if we reload that it’s now
going to look totally different.
Same data but it looks different.
Now it’s got that Avada theme going.
From this point you can start to go in and customize the theme, and background, and colors
and logos, and all those other fun things.
And that is as simple as it is to upload a theme to WordPress.
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