Title: Install theme in .zip format
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Install theme in .zip format

 *  [rooster1969](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rooster1969/)
 * (@rooster1969)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-theme-in-zip-format/)
 * When trying to upload a new theme, i am asked for a hostname for FTP
 * My site is hosted on dreamhost

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 *  [kim09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kim09/)
 * (@kim09)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-theme-in-zip-format/#post-1431341)
 * Hey rooster1969 You should check your ftp account in your Dreamhost account. 
   If dreamhost use cPanel, Another was is you upload this zip files to your site
   directory, and extract it there, so you are ready to install 🙂
 *  [pan69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pan69/)
 * (@pan69)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-theme-in-zip-format/#post-1431605)
 * I have the same issue here. I don’t understand what FTP has to do with this? 
   When I upload the theme ZIP file I can see it appear in the file system when 
   I log in to a shell. Why does it want to invoke an FTP service? It doesn’t make
   sense. The file is right there on the server, no need for FTP.
 * I run my own servers and I do not run an FTP service. How do you upload a theme
   without being forced to go through an FTP upload afterwards?
 * Another thing I noticed with this is when I do upload a theme zip file I can 
   see on my dashboard that I’ve used 13% of my default 10Mb of space. However, 
   I can not see the file anywhere in the admin back-end. I would expect it to appear
   in the Media library. When I delete it manually from the file system the usage
   goes back down to 0%. What’s going on with this?
 * Any help much appreciated.
 *  [kim09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kim09/)
 * (@kim09)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-theme-in-zip-format/#post-1431606)
 * You can also upload the themes without using ftp, just in wp-contents-themes 
   then hit upload your theme and extract it

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