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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