WordPress Themes

WordPress comes with two themes the default theme and the WordPress classic theme. The theme files are located in a directory called themes which is under the wp-content directory.

Here is the folder layout for WordPress:

Inside the wp-content directory you find the themes folder:

and inside the themes folder you find the two themes that come with WordPress, the classic and the default theme.

All other themes are installed into this directory. This is what the directory looks like with more themes installed.

Once you have copied the the theme to your web server it becomes available in the theme viewer for selection. If you click the presentation it show you the current theme :

and if you scroll down you can see the available themes, just click the theme you want to select it.

at the bottom you will find a link to the WordPress theme directory where you can get more themes.

to get and install a new theme the procedure is:

• Locate the theme and copy it to your PC
• Unzip the theme
• Copy the theme folder and its contents to the theme directory on your site (using ftp).

Resources:

• Theme viewer
• Using Themes WordPress codex

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