How to install a WordPress theme? (Two ways)

To install a WordPress theme to your blog or a website is quite easy. You can create any kind of website using a WordPress theme like a dictionary, shopping or e-commerce, blog, affiliate, etc. Whatever kind of a website you want to create you can, it is totally dependent on a WordPress theme.

On this article, I sharing to very easy method to install a WordPress theme to your website or a blog.

Uploading a WordPress theme to a website or a blog

Uploading is the best option to install a WordPress theme for your blog or a website. To upload a theme to your WordPress website or a blog you must have already a theme to upload. In case, you do not have so you can consider the Astra theme, installed by 1+ million WordPress users.

Why upload is the best option?

In case you are installing a WordPress theme which is not available in the WordPress directory so Uploading is the only option you have. This is the reason I choose this option first.

In case, you bought a WordPress theme from a WordPress theme seller so the WordPress theme files you have to download to your computer and uploading is the only option you have. Let’s see some steps below to install a WordPress theme to your website or a blog.

• Go to your WordPress blog or a website.
• Click on Appearance and then themes.
• On the top, you will see an option that is “Add new“. Click on that.
• Click on the upload theme and you will see an option to upload a WordPress theme on a blog or a website.
• Simple upload a WordPress theme and wait a few seconds (depends on your internet connection speed) to install.
• After installing you will see ‘Live Preview‘, ‘Activate‘ and ‘Return to Theme pages‘ options. So simply choose Activate and that’s it.

Install a WordPress theme on a blog or a website from search

With this option you nothing to have uploaded but you must have to search to install a WordPress theme on a blog or a website.

• Go to your WordPress blog or a website.
• Click on Appearance and then themes.
• On the top, you will see an option that is “Add new“. Click on that.
• Simply go for a featured WordPress theme or sort as per your need via clicking on “Feature Filter“.
• Check the boxes as you need on your blog and click on ‘Apply filters‘.
• Whatever the WordPress theme you choose, simply install and activate it.

In case you got confused so I would recommend you search for Astra.

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This is a basic tutorial on WordPress.org. You have two options upload and search. Upload option is best if you want to install a WordPress theme from external sources. And search option is also best in case you are going to consider a free WordPress theme.

One more option is available which I did not consider to show here because it is advanced, lengthy, and typical, that is FTP. Yes! you have an option to install a WordPress theme using FTP like FileZila. You have knowledge about it so go ahead and install or choose the above two options.