Well, in this case “uploading” means to use your FTP client to place the new theme in yourthemes/rose (or whatever it’s called) directory.
Okay, clearly I need to be computer savvy then. What is “FTP client” and I have no idea where “themes/rose or whatever” would even be located.
I should have know that it wouldn’t be as simple as unzip and install.
Thank you for trying to help.
Actually it is that simple!
OK, how did you upload your WP files to your server? Didn’t you use a FTP client/software?
What is the name of the folder/directory of your newly acquired theme? That will be the name of the directory you have to create in your themes directory.
It sounds like you’re trying to upload a template to the wrong location. The “upload” button on the admin page is not for uploading plugins or additions to wordpress itself, that is only for uploading content to your blog. You’d use that if you needed to link to a local picture or something for an entry.
You need access to the actual directory structure of wordpress so you can unzip the new template (the folder and the files in that folder) to the /home/myeggs/public_html/wp-content/themes/ directory. Once the theme files are there, you should be all set. It is that easy, but if you don’t know what you’re doing it can seem tougher than it is.
The way most people access their unix servers is through ftp. Someone, hopefully you, had to install wordpress at sometime. If it was you, how did you get the files into your home folder?
If you can use an FTP client, like SmartFTP, to log in to your public_html directory, navigate to the \wp_content\themes\ directory and copy over the unzipped rose theme files.
Check out SmartFTP at http://www.smartftp.com/
Thank you so much. I will keep trying.
Moshu or I can probably give you more specific help if you give us more information on how you access your files. Do you have physical access to your server? Do you have only FTP access? Do you have only ssh access? Is your server a windows or unix (linux) machine?
