Installing Your Theme And Plug-ins – Lesson 7

Once you have WordPress installed, you will have to take the same course of action to install your chosen theme and installing your chosen plug-ins.  Once again, there is just no way for me to give a good over-all list of either themes or plug-ins with this type of post.  I should have growing lists of both which you can find here sometime in March.  I know that does you little good at this time if you are just now thinking of installing WordPress, however the info provided here is half the challenge.  It may take you a little longer than usual to find the info about themes and plug-ins, but with a little “Google patience” you should do just fine.

Now, you need to find your WordPress install on your server file system and go to and find the folder named “wp-content” and then open this up;  find the folder named themes and open this up.  Now go through the process you went through when you uploaded and extracted WordPress to your server file system and do the same thing with your theme.  Remember to upload the theme “zip” version. Don’t forget to activate your theme, by going into your “wp-admin” area.  Look under the “Dashboard” area on the left hand side of the screen and look under “Appearance” and click “Themes”  DO NOT CLICK ON “Add New Themes”  this is the wrong area.  Now just find your chosen theme and click on “Activate”.

Now you are going to repeat the above, except this time you are looking for the folder within the “wp-content” folder named “plugins“.  Open this folder up and start the upload of your chosen plug-ins.  Don’t forget to activate your plug-ins,  by going into your “wp-admin area.  Look under the “Dashboard” area on the left hand side of the screen and look under “Plugins” and click on “Installed”.  Under “Manage Plugins” locate your chosen plug-in and click on “Activate”.  You may have to play around with the plug-in to get in right, but most are straight forward.  And yes you can drown in tech troubles with the plug-in,  just don’t let it get to you.  Just click on “Deactivate” and deal with it later,  when you have read up on it and you understand it better.