I just installed wordpress bluehost.com. If I want to upload new themes should I upload the entire theme to my cpanel via FTP and then extract it to the appropriate folder?
Thanks
Bluehost.com and how to upload themes. (19 posts)
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apopilot
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read the docs.
thats what those of us without money do, at least.its not done any differently on bluehost.
(If only you werent such a smug jerk, right off the bat.)
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thisisedie
Posted 3 years ago #If you figure out how to upload something to your cpanel will you let me know how you did it? Because that would be some trick!
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you can upload within cpanel, thisisedie -- its NOT done via FTP though :P
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Posted 3 years ago #Well I uploaded one file at a time. For the first theme I tried it worked. Thanks.
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Posted 3 years ago #I could not upload the zip file. Which is what I read in the docs so I just did it one file at a time.
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hes back editing posts after I reply.
Moving on ..
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Posted 3 years ago #If your host offers the cPanel control panel, and the theme files are in a .zip or .gz archive follow these instructions. Note: This assumes the theme you download is a compressed (zip) file and the files in the zip file are in their 'named' folder.
1. Download the theme zip file to your local machine.
2. In cPanel File Manager, navigate to your themes folder. If you have WordPress installed in it's own folder called wordpress, you would navigate to "public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes" and if WordPress is installed in your web-root folder you would navigate to "public_html/wp-content/themes".
3. Once you've navigated to the themes folder in cPanel File Manager, click on Upload file(s) and upload that zip file you saved in Step 1.
4. Once the zip file is uploaded, click on the zip file name in cPanel, then in the panel to the right, click on Extract File Contents, and that zip file will be uncompressed.
5. Follow the instructions below for selecting the new theme.Step 4 does not work.
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Posted 3 years ago #Heh I know Whoo, I was being a smartass :D
@apopilot
This is merely a suggestion and all but hows about you upload the theme all at once via FTP instead of doing it a file at a time through your cpanel?
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Posted 3 years ago #Tried that did not work. Weird.
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hows about you upload the theme all at once via FTP instead of doing it a file at a time through your cpanel?
Tried that did not work. Weird.
sure is. I just ftp'd into a bluehost site and uploaded a theme; it worked perfectly.
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Posted 3 years ago #It didn't work to upload it? What do you mean when you say it didn't work? Because it HAS to work if you uploaded the unzipped file to the proper place.
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Posted 3 years ago #Tried it again on 4 computers did not work.
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Posted 3 years ago #You logged into your site via FTP and upload the unzipped theme to wp-content/themes? Right? And again... what do you mean when you say it didn't work?
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Posted 3 years ago #When I click on the public FTP folder to select it and then select UPLOAD and then select the ZIP file nothing happens it just does not load. I also tried three browsers. I just emailed Bluehost maybe an issue with my new account. Thanks for your help thisisedie.
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thisisedie,
you realize the OP used cpanel and ftp synonymously in the first post?
apop,
you dont upload via FTP with a browser. you upload with an FTP client.
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Posted 3 years ago #Ok... so I'm getting the feeling you don't know what we mean when we say to upload using FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It's a program (filezilla is a free one) that you use to log onto your website so you can upload/download files.
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Posted 3 years ago #Cool it worked! Just rebooted and tried probably something to do with my browser cache.
It worked via the browser!!! Sweet!
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