WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:03.260 Now let's learn how to install a new theme. 00:03.360 --> 00:08.160 And the last lesson I talked about how we already have a theme pre-installed. 00:08.220 --> 00:13.690 When we install Wordpress the 2017 theme there's lots of themes out there. 00:13.710 --> 00:18.030 Thousands upon thousands of themes some paid some free a lot of themes. 00:18.030 --> 00:22.200 You can find by searching for Wordpress themes on Google and finding different sites. 00:22.230 --> 00:29.310 One place that I highly recommend is the in Votto market place called theme forest dot net. 00:29.310 --> 00:35.250 This is where I've purchased themes in the past and you can see if you go to inforced dot net just thousands 00:35.250 --> 00:37.890 upon thousands of themes that you can look through. 00:37.910 --> 00:41.930 And they come with all kind of variety for every purpose. 00:41.940 --> 00:48.570 So the theme is basically the look and feel of your web site and you can find specific themes related 00:48.570 --> 00:56.070 for corporate creative e-commerce education mobile and these come with different tools perhaps a membership 00:56.160 --> 01:01.590 option or perhaps a different type of portfolio option or different types of sliders or different types 01:01.590 --> 01:02.870 of homepages. 01:03.000 --> 01:08.040 So you might want to check out these ones if you're interested in purchasing the one that I've used 01:08.040 --> 01:15.020 a lot for my other web sites like video school online online.com is the ovata theme $60. 01:15.030 --> 01:16.640 But it's very customizable. 01:16.640 --> 01:23.040 And when you go to any of these themes on theme forest you can actually demo them to see what they look 01:23.040 --> 01:27.350 like so you can see that this is a sample template with the Vada. 01:27.350 --> 01:34.000 They come with all kinds of sample templates over here for photographers for any kind of people. 01:34.000 --> 01:42.370 So there's lots of customized ability with all of these themes but there are also very good free themes. 01:42.420 --> 01:49.320 So to change your theme go to a perience and then themes and this takes you to your theme menu. 01:49.440 --> 01:54.160 You can see that the active theme right here is the 20 17 theme. 01:54.180 --> 02:01.470 You also have a 2015 or 2016 theme already pre-installed to add a new theme. 02:01.470 --> 02:04.230 Click this add new theme button. 02:04.380 --> 02:09.500 It will take you to a page of Wordpress themes that you can search through. 02:09.510 --> 02:14.180 Now you can just scroll through and preview them by clicking the preview button. 02:14.250 --> 02:21.240 Or you can sort by popular latest or if you have a specific idea or something you're looking for or 02:21.240 --> 02:23.130 a specific theme you've heard about. 02:23.220 --> 02:25.200 You can search through the themes this way. 02:25.230 --> 02:32.640 So say let's just pick anyone at random say we end up liking this Fit Club theme because maybe we're 02:32.640 --> 02:35.120 starting a an exercise fitness theme. 02:35.190 --> 02:40.830 First we'd probably want to preview it by clicking preview and you can see what it kind of looks like 02:40.860 --> 02:42.640 and say OK that looks great. 02:42.660 --> 02:48.560 You can either click install from here from the preview page or click install from this page here. 02:48.600 --> 02:52.800 So with these themes that are hosted by at Wordpress dot org. 02:52.830 --> 02:54.990 It's basically already on here. 02:55.110 --> 03:01.470 So you just install quick and easy like so once it's installed you have to activate it so you can activity 03:01.710 --> 03:09.330 by clicking here or if we go back to our themes page you'll see that it's now one of our theme options. 03:09.330 --> 03:15.150 So if I click activate and then if I go to my home page and I refresh. 03:15.240 --> 03:20.130 You'll notice that I have a whole new theme installed a different look. 03:20.280 --> 03:23.850 So that's how you install a theme from WordPress dot org. 03:23.910 --> 03:27.890 So we got a theme from theme for Forest dot net and we want to install it. 03:27.980 --> 03:29.490 When you purchase it. 03:29.490 --> 03:35.280 You can see here you have purchased different things from an auto including WordPress themes and songs 03:35.280 --> 03:36.350 from audio jungle. 03:36.390 --> 03:40.290 You want to download the installable WordPress only. 03:40.320 --> 03:44.790 It's probably a good idea to download all of the files and documentation and then within that folder 03:44.790 --> 03:51.910 that you download you'll have the Wordpress file and then under your themes you want to click upload. 03:52.050 --> 03:58.460 So parents themes and then upload click upload theme and then you want to choose the file. 03:58.680 --> 04:00.420 So it should be in a zip file. 04:00.570 --> 04:07.350 So I'm going to go to my desktop go to my installable theme file that I've downloaded and install that 04:07.350 --> 04:09.330 theme click Install now. 04:09.330 --> 04:14.460 Now this might take a few minutes depending on how big the file is and how fast your Internet is. 04:14.460 --> 04:20.040 Once it's installed you'll get to a page like this where you can preview it activate it or return to 04:20.040 --> 04:21.190 the things pages. 04:21.210 --> 04:26.760 If we go back to the themes page you'll see that ovata is now an option so I can click activate and 04:26.760 --> 04:30.090 now if I go back to my home page and refresh. 04:30.090 --> 04:32.820 It's going to appear like the ovata theme. 04:32.820 --> 04:38.580 One thing that might happen if you install a theme from theme forest or any other premium theme you 04:38.580 --> 04:42.960 might need specific plug ins required for that theme to work properly. 04:42.960 --> 04:47.480 For example with Vado theme we need a plug in called Fusion core and Fusion builder. 04:47.610 --> 04:54.210 You'll typically get a notification as soon as you install a theme saying you need this so you can see 04:54.210 --> 04:56.130 here on the left hand side of our menu. 04:56.130 --> 05:03.440 Now I have a Vada theme that comes with some menus and big installation required message. 05:03.450 --> 05:10.190 So what I would do is just go to go manage plug ins and then all of these plug ins are required. 05:10.230 --> 05:16.440 And so I'm going to have to install the ones that are highlighted as required just by clicking the Install 05:16.440 --> 05:17.430 button here. 05:17.430 --> 05:22.150 Now since you're probably not going to be using the avara theme I'm not going to do that but there's 05:22.200 --> 05:26.850 one other thing I want to show you about themes since you probably aren't using Nevada. 05:26.910 --> 05:32.340 I'm going to go ahead and delete my Evora theme now to delete it. 05:32.340 --> 05:39.270 One thing I need to do is to be activated so to deactivate it I'm just going to actually activate a 05:39.270 --> 05:46.230 different theme so I'll just activate this 20:17 theme now to delete this theme or any of the other 05:46.230 --> 05:47.610 themes that I have installed. 05:47.610 --> 05:54.300 I can click on the theme itself to view the theme details then click the delete buttons and then confirm 05:54.420 --> 05:56.430 by hitting the OK button. 05:56.460 --> 06:02.370 So the challenge for you is now to install and activate the template will be working with throughout 06:02.370 --> 06:03.290 this course. 06:03.300 --> 06:09.060 Of course if you want to follow along with what I'm doing in each lesson the template is called sparkling 06:09.150 --> 06:12.960 and you can find it right here through the Word Press themes. 06:12.960 --> 06:16.880 So I'll let you go ahead find it and install and then activate it. 06:16.920 --> 06:23.310 And when you do your website should look something like this with your own name up here and in the next 06:23.310 --> 06:28.740 lessons we're going to start dabbling in customizing the content designing our Web site adding pages 06:28.740 --> 06:31.740 adding blog articles and all sorts of other cool things. 06:31.740 --> 06:34.070 Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next lesson's.