How to Upload a Best Theme to Your Wordpress Blog? – Step 8

This post is the continuation of series of posts to ’90 days challenge to make money online’. If you haven’t read the previous posts, better to go through here.

Wordpress themes

Wordpress blogs have the ability to change the look at any time through themes or templates. In normal, after Wordpress installation in your blog, it looks with default theme as shown below.

You and your visitors want to see clean, simple and great looking sites. So you have to change a best theme to your blog. Theme changing process is very simple in wordpress.

Method 1: Choose and Install a free theme available in wordpress.org

1. Login to your wordpress admin area at yourdomain.com/wp-admin.

2. Click ‘Add New Themes’ under ‘Appearance’ option in Left navigation bar.

3. In next page, Use search box and filter options to choose any one of the theme.

4. In search results page, you will be offered relevant themes. Click ‘Preview’ in your favorite theme and if you like it click ‘Install’.

5. After installation, you will be shown successful installation confirmation message. Click ‘Activate’ in that page.

6. Theme installation finished. Now you can see your site with new theme.

Method 2: Get themes from anywhere online as zip folder format for free or payment, Upload and then activate it.

1. Search online for themes

Free Wordpress Themes

You can search in Google for free wordpress themes. Many sites offer free themes.

Check some below free resources:

1. High Quality Free themes -xhtml valid – widget ready

2.  Top Wordpress themes

3. 100 excellent free high quality wordpress themes

Paid Wordpress themes:

If you look for some great themes, then you can go for any of the following paid themes. After making payment, immediately you can download theme as folder.

a. Woothemes

b. Themeforest

c. Ultimate blogging theme

d. Elegant Themes

e. Affiliate theme

f. Thesis

1. If you have downloaded your free or paid theme to your computer, then go to your wordpress admin dashboard.

2. Go to ‘Add New Themes’ under ‘Appearance’ Tab in Left Navigation.

3. Click ‘Upload’ option. I have uploaded bloggingpro theme.

4. In next step, browse and locate the theme zip folder and click ‘Install now’.

5. Theme installation finished. Now you can see your blog with new theme.