How To Install WordPress Theme [Begining Guide 2021]

One more article in the series of Worpress Guide, in the last article we saw “How to install WordPress Plugins” and in this article, we will talk about How to install WordPress Themes. WordPress themes can give your website or blog a professional look and optimize it more for readers.

There are thousands of WordPress themes available, some are paid with extra features and some are free. Just hit the search query in Google “WordPress themes” and you will see many articles are offering WordPress themes, even you will see their Demo version so that you can predict how your website will look after the installation of the theme.

There are three methods to install a WordPress theme on your blog, these are as follows:

  • Search theme in WordPress theme library and install it.
  • Upload theme through WordPress Dashboard.
  • Upload theme via FTP ( Only for Pro Bloggers)

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With these methods you can easily install a WordPress theme on your blog, so let’s start our guide of installing WordPress themes.

How To Install WordPress Theme Manually?

WordPress is one of the advanced platforms for bloggers; here you will get everything for blog customization. After completing the WordPress installation, just move on to Admin Dashboard.

Here you will find an option called “Appearance” on the left sidebar, just hover your mouse over there and you will get an option called “Themes” click on that and you will see some of the Default WordPress themes.

If you are not happy with WordPress Default themes, then click on the “Add New” option which will be available on the top. Once you clicked on that, you will see the WordPress themes library, where you will get hundreds of WordPress themes for Free.

There are three tabs Featured, Popular, Latest; choose any theme from these 3 tabs. if you have the name of the theme in your mind then you can use the theme search option which will be available on the right side top, just put the name of the theme and hit the search.

Once you choose a theme, just hover your mouse on that theme and you will found two options “Install” or “Preview”. Either you can directly install that theme or just take a look at the theme preview which gives you a brief idea about the website look.

After clicking on the Install button, the process of theme installation will be started on your website.

Once the installation process is done, it will ask you to activate the theme. If you activate the theme, the whole layout of the website will be changed as per the theme.

This is how you can install a WordPress theme on your blog with the help of the WordPress theme Library.

How To Install WordPress Theme From ZIP?

This option will be helpful when you found a beautiful theme on 3rd party website; it might be a paid theme or a free theme. Currently, WordPress is only giving the option to upload the. Zip file, so better to check that your theme will be in. Zip file format. Follow these simple steps to install a WordPress theme via the uploading method.

  • Log in to your WordPress dashboard
  • Navigate to Appearance> Themes > Add New> Upload
  • Click on browse, locate your .zip file for the theme and click on Install now.

Once you hit the install button, the theme installation process will be started on your website. After few seconds, it will take you to another page, where you will see the options called “Activate” & “preview” if you click on the activate option, the theme will be live on your website. You can also take the preview option so that you can get a brief idea about the look of your website with the theme.

How To Install WordPress Theme via FTP ( Only for Pro Bloggers)?

I would recommend this technique only for Pro bloggers; if you are a beginner then 1 and 2 steps will be good for you. This method can be used when you have downloaded the theme from a third party and your server is not allowing you to upload the theme through the admin panel or you are having any error while installing it.

Before starting the FTP method, you need FTP software like Cute Ftp or FileZilla. In this method, we unpack the theme from the .zip folder and upload it to the theme folder which is located in the WP-content folder of the WordPress directory.

Just follow these simple steps:

  • Unpack the theme.
  • Login to FTP manager and locate the theme folder.
  • Upload the unzipped theme folder to the WordPress theme folder.

It’s done, now your theme is available on your server, we just need to activate it.

How to Activate WordPress Themes?

After uploading the theme through the FTP method, now it’s time to activate that theme. Go to Appearance> Themes and you will see a list of all installed themes. You can Preview or activate the theme directly from here.

How To Delete WordPress Theme Completely?

If you are not happy with your theme and want to delete it from your website then just follow this simple step. Navigate to Admin>Appearance >Themes and you will find all the themes which are installed on your website. Just click on the theme which you want to delete, a popup will come and at the bottom of the right side, you will see a delete button.

Hope that this guide will help lots of people who want to start their blogging career with WordPress, if you have any question then please let me know by commenting on the post. 🙂

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