How to Change a Theme in Wordpress

Live preview of your current topic. In the sidebar of the customizer, click Change.

Learn how to correctly toggle WordPress themes on your website

Looking to change the WordPress theme on your website? We will show you in this tutorial how to correctly toggle WordPress topics. The change of the look of your entire website is a big one. As soon as you have made a full back up of your website, you will need to go through our full 15 things you MUST do check list before you change your WordPress theme.

Well, now that you have made good notices on your topic, let's begin the change of topic procedure. You can choose from both free and fee-based WordPress topics. Being a reader of this paper means that you have already found a good topic for your needs. Or if you haven't, take a look at this item about choosing a great design.

You must first have the new design on your website before you can change the designs. When you change to a free design located in the WordPress.org theme directory, you can directly download it from your WordPress administration area using the Find function. First, you need to go to Corporate Design " Topics, where you will see a listing of all the currently loaded topics on your website.

Then click the Add New icon at the top of the page. You will be taken to the Add New Topic page, where you can find and explore free topics from WordPress. org Topic List. To use this example, let's assume that you want to use the Slipstream theme.

First, type the name of the topic in the field and it will appear in the results as well. If you now move the cursor over the topic screenshots, you will see an Installation Buttons. Just click the Installs icon to begin downloading and installation of the theme. Keep in mind that the installation of a theme does not auto-enable or applies that theme to your website.

Just downloads the topic. Later in this tutorial, we will show you how to enable an existing design. A further possibility to upload a design to WordPress is to upload the zipped version of your design. To use a WordPress theme you have to use this option, because the above mentioned searching option only works for free topics in WordPress. org themes directlylry.

Begin by download the topic tip on your computer. As soon as you have a zipped archive with the theme, you need to go to Corporate Design " Themes and click the New Add icon at the top of the page. You will need to click the Upload Topic icon at the top of the new theme adding page on your computer monitor.

As a result, the template for uploading the topic is displayed. Just click the Select Files pushbutton and then find the zipped files on your computer. Once you have selected the zipped files, click the Apply Now icon. Now WordPress uploads the zipped archives from your computer to your website and installs them for you.

As soon as you have successfully uploaded a WordPress theme, it's your turn to enable it and use it on your website. Begin by going to Looks " Topics where you will see all the topics that have been set up on your WordPress page, plus the new one you just added. Move the cursor over the theme you want to enable and you will see an Enable icon below that theme.

All you need to do now is click the Activate icon to add this topic to your WordPress page. Also, you can use the Preview Alive pushbutton to see what the new design would look like on your website. As soon as enabled, you can go to the home page of your website to see the new theme in operation.

Hopefully, this piece has help you make the right choice for your WordPress theme. If your old design used built-in SOE features over a plug-in like WordPress SOE from Yoast, then you need to use the SOE Data Transporter. Please sign up for our YouTube channel for more WordPress videos if you liked this one.