How To Upload Wordpress Themes And Plugins
Wordpress 2.7 Themes And Plugins
In today’s post we will look at how to upload a new Wordpress theme to your host’s server. I was also going to show you how to upload plugin’s too, yet with the introduction of Wordpress 2.7, this is no longer an issue, as you can upload from within the platform.
When it comes to Wordpress themes, there are hundreds of sites on the Internet where you can download them for free, of for a small fee. There are also sites where you can get a theme custom designed that will cost a lot more too.
Once you have found a theme that you think might be the look you are trying to achieve, you will have to download it to your local computer. It is usually in a ZIP file, and you should save it to where your website files are, or a folder that you can remember easily.
Now comes the fun part. In order to upload your theme to your server, you will need some FTP software, and 
the one I use, that also happens to be free, is Filezilla. Download the FTP client, and then run the application. Here you will need to enter your domain name, host user name and hosting password. Hit connect and you should be in to the remote server.
You will have to look through the remote files, and your theme will have to go in the following directory:
yourdomain.com>>WP-Content>>Themes
You can copy and paste, or drag and drop your unzipped theme folder and dump it in the Themes folder. All you have to do know, is to log in to your Wordpress account here: yourdomain.com/wp-admin and navigate to the Design>>Themes are, and you will now see the theme that you uploaded. You can click on it, and you will be given a preview of how your site will now look.
If you are happy with the way it looks, simple press activate, and your new theme is ready and active. Not what you were looking for, then you just need to upload some more themes and try again until you do find one that suits your style.
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Thanks for the tute! I am just moving my art blog across to my own hosting package, and this helps alot.
Hi Tom, glad you liked the article. Got a lot more Wordpress tutorials coming so stay tuned.
Thanks fir the great tutorial, I’m moving from blogger to wordpress and Ive been reading the tutorials that you have in here and they have helped me a lot thank you so much!
Have a nice day!
Mr. Cantu
“That Free Dude”
Thanks for explaining the process on such a simple and wonderful way….thanks a lot!
I think id like to review this tool, you should contact me on my site.
I used to use filezilla, but I’ve found FTPrush more stable. I believe it’s freeware as well
Good post, but I found out. It is different from what I did.
I just uploaded my WP themes. It is no used to upload those to the website host provider under the www>wp>theme folder because you can uploads them when you login your website/wp-admin/>appearance>(at the top right hand corner)install themes>upload. I do not know the current version of this one.
I hope this would help.
Hi Clint
thanks for your easy instructions. I downloaded filezilla with the intention to upload a new theme I found for my wordpress. I just cant get the filezilla to connect though, even after searching extensively on the web and following instructions.. as best I could.
Even youtube tutorials arent really clear about what exactly to typ in each space when connecting eg host; user; account etc when configuring filezilla.
I wonder if you could provide this advice or direct me to a resource which explains for novices really clearly.
Thanks again
@dada – Hi Dada, the details you need for FileZilla are your hostname, username and password that would have been set up through your hosting company. Check it with them if you are unsure.
There is another way to upload the themes. Just go to “Appearance”, select the “themes”, “installation”, and “upload” your themes. It is version latest version 2.9 though.
@pankas – Hi, thanks for contributing this. You are still required to add your FTP details within your Wordpress admin in order to upload themes and plugins this way.
thx for sharing this post, that helped me man!
keep good work and much tuts