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How to Install Themes for Your Wordpress Blog

This article describes the easy how to steps of installing new themes for your self-hosted WordPress blog. You will also find several sites where you can find new WordPress Themes for your self-hosted WordPress blog.

Instructions This article is going to assume you have a self-hosted WordPress blog. You cannot upload themes to a free WordPress.com hosted blog.

First you should find several themes that you like. Download them and unzip them. You can fnd WordPress blog themes in several places, as well as searching "free WordPress Themes".Here are a few sites to start with:The Official Wordpress Theme Viewer  XHTML Valid  WP Templates   (my personal favorite)

Once your themes are downloaded and unzipped open your FTP Client and connect to your site. You will need to open the directory usually titled "www". Then you need to find where you have installed your WordPress Blog. Once you have located and opened that folder, you need to open the folder titled "wp-content". Then you must open the folder labeled "themes". Now you can upload your unzipped theme folders into the WordPress theme folder.

Once that is completed, open your web web browseryour WordPress account. Under the Design tab you should see screenshots of all your published WordPress Themes. Just click on the one that you like the most and WordPress will apply that theme to your blog.

That's about it. It's really quite easy. Of course you will want to click on the Design/Widgets tabs and add widgets to your theme to make your blog more interactive. Have fun with it!!!

Tips &; Warnings

I recommend using CoreFtp as an FTP client. The free version is really great.

I would only recommend downloading Themes from sites that are listed directly. It is possible that if you download a theme off of a site that can't be trustworthy that there will be virus' and other stuff in it, without you realizing it. So be careful of that. Look for things in your template files like lists of keywords, text that seems out of place, etc