WordPress Basics
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
  • Accessing your WordPress site
    • Accessing Your Site
    • Logging Into Your Site
    • Resetting Your Password
    • Switching From Dashboard to Live Site
  • Adding content to your site
    • Creating a Post
    • Creating a Page
    • Working with content in the Visual editor
    • Working with code in the Text editor
    • Creating a Link
    • Editing a Link
    • Adding an Image to a Page or Post
    • Wrapping Text Around an Image
    • Editing Image Details
    • Removing an Image From a Page or Post
    • Adding a Featured Image to a Post
    • Deleting a Post
    • Deleting a Page
  • Working with Menus
    • Creating a Menu
    • Adding Pages to a Menu
    • Removing Pages From a Menu
    • Creating a Custom Link Menu item
    • Changing a button label
    • Changing the order of Menu items
    • Creating a fly-out Menu
    • Managing the Menu location
  • Working with Plugins
    • Adding a Plugin to your site
    • Finding plugin instructions
    • Updating your Plugins
    • Deactivating a Plugin
    • Deleting a Plugin
  • Changing the look of your site
    • Adding a theme to your site
    • Changing themes
    • Managing the Menu after switching themes
    • Using the Customizer
    • Working with Widgets
    • Updating your themes
  • Site settings and administration
    • Creating a static front page
    • Creating a page for posts
    • Changing the format of permalinks
    • Changing your password
    • Changing your email address
    • Managing spam comments
    • Updating your WordPress installation
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  1. Changing the look of your site

Adding a theme to your site

  1. From the Dashboard, click Appearance and then select Themes.

  2. Click Add New.

  3. Browse themes available on the WordPress Repository using the Featured, Popular and Latest tabs. To see all themes on the Repository, click within the Search themes… field (don’t type anything) and press Enter on your keyboard.

  4. Use the Preview button to take a look at the theme. (This will not apply the theme to your site. It's a preview of how the theme works with images, text, and other elements.)

  5. When you’ve found a theme you would like to use, click Install. The theme will download to your WordPress site.

  6. To apply the theme to your site, click Activate.

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