How to install a theme on a WordPress blog

Are you looking for a guide on how to install a theme on a WordPress blog? In this article today, I shall show you how to install a theme on a WordPress-powered website or blog step-by-step.

A theme is a pre-designed template that can be easily installed on your WordPress site to allow you to customize its appearance without needing to write any code. As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts, WordPress itself is free to use to create a website or blog. You may see our guide on how to make money with AdSense on a WordPress blog.

You don’t have to know how to code before you can create a website or blog on WordPress as there are free plugins and themes available to install to add a specific feature or function to your website.

If you are reading this guide, that means you have already got a domain and hosting and also installed WordPress from your Cpanel. If you haven’t, then you may read the following articles:

Without wasting time, let’s start to show you how to install a theme on your WordPress-powered blog.

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Step one: installing via WordPress dashboard

To install a plugin via a WordPress dashboard, follow the steps below:

Login to your WordPress dashboard via www.yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php/
Navigate your menu and click Appearance
Click theme
At the top of the page, click Add new theme as shown in the screen short below
Via search form, enter the name of theme that you want to install, for example, ”Astra”
Then click “Install” button.

How to install a theme on a WordPress blog

Now, we have completely installed Astra theme on our website. You can go ahead to customize the styles of your website/blog. We shall show you that but let’s show you the second method on how to install theme on a website or blog.

Step two: uploading the theme in zip file

The second step of installing a theme on a WordPress website is uploading its zip file directly to your dashboard. Here are the process guides on how to do this.

Visit any premium theme website like themeforest.com
Or visit WordPress theme directory and search for the name of the theme you like
Click download which will install the theme file on your device in zip format
Now, login to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Appearance menu
Click theme
Click “Upload theme”
Finally, drag the theme file that you just downloaded to the upload field.

If you followed the teaching above, that means you have completely installed a theme on your WordPress blog or website. The next things we shall do now is customizing our website frontend.

Installing a theme is the fastest and cost-effective way that a new blogger can reduce the price they would pay for designing their website.

However, installing a theme is not the end of your website design journey as you would need to delete the features that the theme you installed comes with which is not useful to your website.

By customizing theme will also enable you to add a features which the theme you installed didn’t come with.

For this reason, let’s begin to show you how to customize a WordPress theme, for example, Astra theme.

How to customize a theme

With the free plan of any theme, you can create a personal, business and blog website. Here is how to customize any WordPress theme on your blog or website.

We shall update this article with an advanced tutorials on how to customize a theme step-by-step. you may see our guide on the complete guide to website design (using Wix).

login to your WordPress dashboard
Navigate to appearance and click theme
Choose the theme you want to customize, in case you have got many theme installed on your website, for example, click “Astra”
From here on, you can customize any feature of your theme.

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