Title: Adding new theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding new theme

 *  [NanoDae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nanodae/)
 * (@nanodae)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-theme-1/)
 * I am new at this.
    1. What is the difference between a theme and a template? 
   2. I have just started a new site on wordpress.org and want to try it the theme
   Matala. How do I go about previewing this on my site and then uploading it? Thanks,
   Nano

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-theme-1/#post-2799072)
 * See these:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes)

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 * [previewing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/previewing/)
 * [uploading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/uploading/)

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