Find a WordPress Theme to Fit Your Mood

by Beth J. Bates on April 1, 2009 · 0 comments

WordPress Themes

Besides its functionality and ease of use, I really like how easy it is to add and play around with WordPress themes. Essentially, WordPress enables you to make your blog look however you like. You can use free, pre-programmed themes. You can hire someone to create a theme. You can skin WordPress with your own website’s design. It’s really flexible and the free themes are actually pretty professional. My main challenge is not spending hours and hours trying out different themes. It’s like trying on new clothes!

It’s painfully easy to add a them to your library.

Find a theme that you like and download it to your local drive. Themes are typically pre-packaged as a zip file.
Unzip the file.
Connect to your web server via the FTP connection that you set-up when you installed WordPress.
Navigate to the folder www\wp-content\themes on the web server.
Upload the entire unzipped theme folder to this directory on the web server.
Login to WordPress. Click “Appearance” then “Themes”. You should see the theme within this window.
Click the theme to preview.
If you like it, activate it.
If you don’t like it, lather, rinse and repeat with a different theme until you find one that you like.

Here are a few resources for themes. Some are definitely better than others, but I have always found something that I could use.