How to Install A WordPress Theme

Before Installing a WordPress Theme

If you’ve purchased your theme at Themeforest, you’ll need to download the theme file before installing it. Simply log into your account, go to your “Downloads” and locate your theme. Click on the “Download” button and select the “Installable WordPress file only”. This will download the zip file for your theme.

Themes can be installed in several ways:

Install a theme through WordPress

  1. Navigate to Appearance > Themes.
  2. Click  Install Themes and click the Upload button.
  3. Browse to find the ZIP theme file on your computer and click Install Now.
  4. Activate the newly installed theme by going to  Appearance > Themes and clicking the Activate button.
  5. Once you activate the theme, you will see a notification message to install the required & recommended plugins.
  6. In the notification message, click the ‘Go Install Plugin’ button to go to the Plugins tab where you can install and activate the required & recommended plugins.
  7. Click on Install button on each plugin to start installing them. After you’ve installed them, Activate them.

Install a theme via FTP/SFTP

  1. Connect to your hosting space via an FTP software.
  2. Unzip the ZIP theme file and ONLY use the extracted theme folder.
  3. Upload the extracted theme folder into wp-content > themes folder.
  4. Log in to WordPress admin and activate the newly installed theme by going to  Appearance > Themes and click the Activate button.
  5. Once you activate the theme, you will see a notification message to install the required & recommended plugins.
  6. In the notification message, click the ‘Go Install Plugin’ button to go to the Plugins tab where you can install and activate the required & recommended plugins.
  7. Click on Install button on each plugin to start installing them. After you’ve installed them,  Activate them.

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