Title: Help please with theme change..
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help please with theme change..

 *  [houndhunt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houndhunt/)
 * (@houndhunt)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-with-theme-change/)
 * Completely lost now after 4 hours surfing the help topics..
    I downloaded a theme
   from the wordpress gallery, and can’t figure out how to change it. I am hosted
   with bluehost. Is there an easier way to change these themes for a complete computer
   newbie?

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 *  [Eric Amundson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sewmyheadon/)
 * (@sewmyheadon)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-with-theme-change/#post-790601)
 * If you’ve unzipped and uploaded the theme to your wp-content/themes directory,
   you should be able to go to your WordPress admin page, click on Design and click
   the theme you’d like to use.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/#Get_New_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/#Get_New_Themes)
 *  [tahmina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tahmina/)
 * (@tahmina)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-with-theme-change/#post-791012)
 * hi i am having same problem . i am able to change theme from local host
    but 
   from server when i click on themes does not appear anything . but from localhost
   its fine it does come with activate button plz help me to solve it
 *  [lovedrea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovedrea/)
 * (@lovedrea)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-with-theme-change/#post-791013)
 * I see NO “design” option. I have themes in my content foldere- downloaded–but
   see NO way to upload to my actual blog. So I am stuck at default and ready to
   chuck the whole process.
 *  [asechrest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asechrest/)
 * (@asechrest)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-with-theme-change/#post-791014)
 * lovedrea. Have you uploaded the unzipped theme folder to your _server_ using 
   an FTP program?
 * These are the steps you need to be taking:
 * 1) Download the zipped theme file to your computer.
    2) Unzip the theme file 
   onto your computer. 3) Verify that the base theme folder is not contained in 
   another useless folder of the same name. Sometimes you get a MyTheme -> MyTheme-
   > MyThemeFolderContents structure. If you upload this whole thing, it won’t work.
   You should pull the main theme folder out, or simply upload the inner folder.
   4) Upload the theme folder to your /wp-content/themes directory on your server
   using an FTP program. (If you don’t know what this means, do some research on
   Google or consult your host help files.) 5) Navigate to your WordPress admin 
   dashboard, and on the menu on the left hand side go to Appearance -> Themes. 
   6) Available themes will be here, and you can switch between them.

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 * Last reply from: [asechrest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asechrest/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-with-theme-change/#post-791014)
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