How To Add A Wordpress Theme?

How to add a Wordpress Theme to your site?

Oh! By the way, most people will tell you that it is better to host a wordpress theme or blog on its own ie. with its own Domain Name. The authority site, Wordpress will also suggest the same.

However, there are 2 ways you can in a wordpress blog theme in your site.

Method 1 - An individal site hosting a Wordpress theme/template

1. Go to Wordpress and search for your preferred Theme. Themes may come by 2 columns to 4 columns. Select the preferred Theme.

2. Download the zipped folder of the selected Theme into your local computer ie. your hard drive.

3. Next, you can upload the chosen Theme folder to your server using any FTP program.

4. Be sure you follow this path: www.yourdomain.com/public_html/wp/

That is to say, go to your domain name server and locate the public html folder. In here, create a folder named ‘wp’ in public_html. This is the place where you will upload your Theme folder to.

5. To change any of the contents in your Wordpress Theme, go to: www.yourdomain.com/public_html/wp/wp-content/

Method 2 - Upload a Wordpress template to your sub-page of your website

1. Again, repeat steps 1 - 3 of above.

2. Only this time, your files path will look different. It should look like this:

www.yourdomain.com/public_html/subpagename/wp/

You should use any FTP program to upload the chosen Wordpress Theme folder in to ‘wp’.

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How To Promote Your Free Wordpress Theme Tips

Here are a number of Tips on how to promote your free wordpress theme that I would like to share with you today.

1. After you have finished uploading wordpress to your own blog, tag it with Technorati, and add a screenshot with tags to Flickr, and next add to some social bookmarks. Next step, go and do some research to find out where else you can submit your themes for the widest distribution.

2. To start, go to the best place at Wordpress Codex. All you have to do is register for an account, and edit the appropriate category in the wiki format to add your theme. The result is an instant PR7 link to your site.

3. As Wordpress-Themes.org has a flashed-based file upload utility that is kind of cool. It’s a small list right now, but it looks like it has a lot of potential. Theme page currently a PR2

4. Next, leave a comment on How to Blog’s list of 875+ free themes for Wordpress and you’ll get some traffic from the comment section right away. And hopefully you’ll get added to the next update of the list. The list is PR5, and the comment section does not appear to use the nofollow tag.

5. BloxFlux Theme Directory requires registration and a screenshot that’s 640×480, but if you jump through the hoops, your theme is added instantly. The theme page is a PR7, but your link will be on a unique page for your theme. Based on the directory structure, that page is likely to get a PR4 or 5 when Google updates again.

6. Wordpress Theme Browser (PR7) takes an uploaded zip file of your theme from your hard drive as a submission, automatically creates a screenshot and grabs the theme info from the style.css file. Very slick, and instant. Be sure to link to your site from the style.css for best effect. Now that this site is up and running, the Wordpress Themepark is offline.

7. The Open Directory Project seems to be listing only those sites that have multiple themes, but if you can make one, you can repeat the process multiple times … and the ODP gets replicated at Google as well as other high-traffic sites.

8. Smaller link directories

9. WordpressTheme dot com (PR5) seems to be down for the count, but it might be worthwhile submitting your theme via the contact form.

10. Not yet fully functional, it seems, is wp-themes.org (PR6), where you can host your theme, and have it displayed wiki-style, like wp-plugins but for themes. Watch this site closely.

Anything else that I have missed? Add a comment.

Static Website vs Wordpress Theme template

I have made the decision to change the static template of my main website to Wordpress theme template. I want my website to have a static webpage as a front but add in the versatility of a blog.

Let me tell you about the difference in my experience, with a static website and the experience of using a blog.

Static Mini Webpage

I have promoted products using mini sites. There are a number of advantages if you just use mini sites to promote your products or services.

• Mini sites are easy to set it up. You can set mini sites within a matter of hours or within a day.
• The layout of a mini site template would have a banner at the top of the page.
• This is followed by a Main Page Title, and a sub-title beneath this.
• Your body of content or sales letter would go in after this, where you would do your sales pitch.
• After the sales pitch, you would probably add in some testimonials from your customer to back up your product.
• Then you ask your visitors to take an action.
• The action can be to subscribe to your Newsletter, your Free Report or Free Videos to view, before your prospects decide to make the decision to purchase your product or service.
• You can also ask for the Order right away at this stage.
• If your visitors do not order there and then, you would follow up with your prospects via email marketing.
• Email marketing involves subscribing to an Autoresponder and sending your prospects emails.
• Basically these are the processes in a mini site.

Static Full Website

I have personally used Microsoft Frontpage to build my own website. And it was not as versatile as I want it to be. After having that website of about 15 pages for a year now, I begin to feel restricted in it. Why? Read on …….

• You can either go and purchase a reasonably good and full website for a price of below USD60.00, or
• You can choose to spend hours like me, learning how to use Frontpage to design the website template yourself.
• Frontpage is a web editor, and it uses HTML codes. Now, I do not understand how to read HTML codes but with the web editor, I can safely say that I can add in tables, add in content, insert hyperlinks for both internal and external links, and link my site to a payment gateway processor, to accept payment.
• Basically this is all you have to do in your site.
• Now, before you go ahead to build your own website, think about all the hours it will take you to design the template.
• I need someone to design the top Banner for me, to brand myself, as a signature. You may need to outsource this to someone.
• Then you have to plan out the layout of your website look and feel. Since I am not a designer, I researched the internet. After I found what I was looking for, I plan out the website.
• You should include a Home page, About you or About your services page, a Contact page and an Order page.
• After building in your Main pages, you have to build your sub-pages that your Main pages would link to, for opt-ins, affiliate promotion, subscribers and content.
• And, later, when you decide to expand your website, for more content and information, you need to create additional pages. The list goes on.
• As I was working on my own and also trying to save on expensive web design fees in my country, I have to spend loads of time doing this. And this is tiring work.
• After a year, on static website, I decided to change the site’s template to Wordpress Theme template.

Wordpress Theme template

I like what I can do with Wordpress theme templates as they gave me much more versatility.

• I can post as many posts as I wish in to whatever category I wish to write about. I do not even need to plan out the Categories. I can add on as many Categories as I want to.
• You only need to keep certain main pages static. This depends on the Wordpress template you have chosen. I prefer to add content to the left side of the page, while my Google Adsense and my Categories to go on the right side panel of the page.
• I can add in links to RSS, join blogging communities, add in tags, add in audio and video with ease if I want to and read comments sent in by visitors.
• I can update my blog anytime anywhere too.
• Blogs are getting ranked quicker and faster than static websites also.

Perhaps I am trying to justify my decision to change but I have received good feedback from this change, and I am pleased that made the changes quickly.