Now let's learn how to install a new theme.
And the last lesson I talked about how we already have a theme pre-installed.
When we install Wordpress the 2017 theme there's lots of themes out there.
Thousands upon thousands of themes some paid some free a lot of themes.
You can find by searching for Wordpress themes on Google and finding different sites.
One place that I highly recommend is the in Votto market place called theme forest dot net.
This is where I've purchased themes in the past and you can see if you go to inforced dot net just thousands
upon thousands of themes that you can look through.
And they come with all kind of variety for every purpose.
So the theme is basically the look and feel of your web site and you can find specific themes related
for corporate creative e-commerce education mobile and these come with different tools perhaps a membership
option or perhaps a different type of portfolio option or different types of sliders or different types
of homepages.
So you might want to check out these ones if you're interested in purchasing the one that I've used
a lot for my other web sites like video school online online.com is the ovata theme $60.
But it's very customizable.
And when you go to any of these themes on theme forest you can actually demo them to see what they look
like so you can see that this is a sample template with the Vada.
They come with all kinds of sample templates over here for photographers for any kind of people.
So there's lots of customized ability with all of these themes but there are also very good free themes.
So to change your theme go to a perience and then themes and this takes you to your theme menu.
You can see that the active theme right here is the 20 17 theme.
You also have a 2015 or 2016 theme already pre-installed to add a new theme.
Click this add new theme button.
It will take you to a page of Wordpress themes that you can search through.
Now you can just scroll through and preview them by clicking the preview button.
Or you can sort by popular latest or if you have a specific idea or something you're looking for or
a specific theme you've heard about.
You can search through the themes this way.
So say let's just pick anyone at random say we end up liking this Fit Club theme because maybe we're
starting a an exercise fitness theme.
First we'd probably want to preview it by clicking preview and you can see what it kind of looks like
and say OK that looks great.
You can either click install from here from the preview page or click install from this page here.
So with these themes that are hosted by at Wordpress dot org.
It's basically already on here.
So you just install quick and easy like so once it's installed you have to activate it so you can activity
by clicking here or if we go back to our themes page you'll see that it's now one of our theme options.
So if I click activate and then if I go to my home page and I refresh.
You'll notice that I have a whole new theme installed a different look.
So that's how you install a theme from WordPress dot org.
So we got a theme from theme for Forest dot net and we want to install it.
When you purchase it.
You can see here you have purchased different things from an auto including WordPress themes and songs
from audio jungle.
You want to download the installable WordPress only.
It's probably a good idea to download all of the files and documentation and then within that folder
that you download you'll have the Wordpress file and then under your themes you want to click upload.
So parents themes and then upload click upload theme and then you want to choose the file.
So it should be in a zip file.
So I'm going to go to my desktop go to my installable theme file that I've downloaded and install that
theme click Install now.
Now this might take a few minutes depending on how big the file is and how fast your Internet is.
Once it's installed you'll get to a page like this where you can preview it activate it or return to
the things pages.
If we go back to the themes page you'll see that ovata is now an option so I can click activate and
now if I go back to my home page and refresh.
It's going to appear like the ovata theme.
One thing that might happen if you install a theme from theme forest or any other premium theme you
might need specific plug ins required for that theme to work properly.
For example with Vado theme we need a plug in called Fusion core and Fusion builder.
You'll typically get a notification as soon as you install a theme saying you need this so you can see
here on the left hand side of our menu.
Now I have a Vada theme that comes with some menus and big installation required message.
So what I would do is just go to go manage plug ins and then all of these plug ins are required.
And so I'm going to have to install the ones that are highlighted as required just by clicking the Install
button here.
Now since you're probably not going to be using the avara theme I'm not going to do that but there's
one other thing I want to show you about themes since you probably aren't using Nevada.
I'm going to go ahead and delete my Evora theme now to delete it.
One thing I need to do is to be activated so to deactivate it I'm just going to actually activate a
different theme so I'll just activate this 20:17 theme now to delete this theme or any of the other
themes that I have installed.
I can click on the theme itself to view the theme details then click the delete buttons and then confirm
by hitting the OK button.
So the challenge for you is now to install and activate the template will be working with throughout
this course.
Of course if you want to follow along with what I'm doing in each lesson the template is called sparkling
and you can find it right here through the Word Press themes.
So I'll let you go ahead find it and install and then activate it.
And when you do your website should look something like this with your own name up here and in the next
lessons we're going to start dabbling in customizing the content designing our Web site adding pages
adding blog articles and all sorts of other cool things.
Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next lesson's.