Installation

There are three ways of Theme installation. Information about each of them could be found below. Please choose the one that you prefer.

Adding Theme using the WordPress Administration Panel

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel.
2. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
3. Select Add New.
4. Use the ‘Upload theme’ button in the top left corner of the page and choose a zipped copy of a Theme that you have previously downloaded to your PC.
5. Click on ‘Install Now’ button.
6. Follow the instructions in below for making the Theme active on your site.
   
   

   Adding Theme Manually (FTP)

To add a new Theme to your WordPress installation, follow these basic steps:

1. Download the Theme archive and extract the files it contains. You may need to preserve the directory structure in the archive when extracting these files. Follow the guidelines provided by your Theme author.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, create a directory to save your Theme in the wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress. For example, a Theme named Test should be in wp-content/themes/theme. Your Theme may provide this directory as part of the archive.
3. Upload the Theme files to the new directory on your host server.
4. Follow the instructions in below for making the Theme active on your site.

Adding Theme using cPanel

If your host offers the cPanel control panel, and the Theme files are in a .zip or .gz archive follow these instructions.

Note: This assumes the Theme you download is a compressed (.zip) file containing a folder under which all the Theme files reside.

1. Download the Theme .zip file to your local machine.
2. In cPanel File Manager, navigate to your Themes folder. If your WordPress is installed in the document root folder of your web server you would navigate to "public_html/wp-content/themes" and if you have WordPress installed in a sub-folder called wordpress, you would navigate to "public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes".
3. Once you've navigated to the Themes folder in cPanel File Manager, click on Upload file(s) and upload that .zip file you saved in Step 1.
4. Once the .zip file is uploaded, click on the name of that file in cPanel, then in the panel to the right, click on "Extract File Contents", and that .zip file will be uncompressed.
5. Follow the instructions in below for making the Theme active on your site.
   

Selecting the Active Theme

To select a Theme for your site:

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel.
2. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
3. From the Themes panel, roll over the Theme thumbnail image for the Theme you are interested in to see options for that theme.
4. You can view more information about any theme by clicking Theme Details.
5. A live preview of any Theme (using your site content) can be seen by clicking Live Preview.
6. To activate the Theme click the ‘Activate’ button.

Your selection will immediately become active.

Note: If the Theme preview is blank, do not activate the new Theme without investigating further. Your site may not be displayed correctly, otherwise.

Important: After making Theme active you'll need to complete a verification. Information about required steps could be found in Verification section.