Title: Theme images location
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Theme images location

 *  [aarmida](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aarmida/)
 * (@aarmida)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-images-location/)
 * Hello,
 * I have just taken over a WordPress site and have no previous experience with 
   it. I need to modify the subnav on the site, and although I have successfully
   done it modifying the stylesheet and the header.php file, I have not been able
   to figure out where to access the theme images in order to update these. So, 
   the subnav is using a background image [background: url(images/bg-subNav.png)],
   but I can’t find a folder on the admin with the images for the theme. I have 
   searched the web with this question without any success … can someone help :/
   Thank you!

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 *  [Maruti Mohanty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marutim/)
 * (@marutim)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-images-location/#post-4242967)
 * Hi Aarmida,
 * There should be an image folder in the same level with the stylesheet and header.
   php files.
 * The url suggests the image is in this folder wp-content/themes/**images**
 *  [martcol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hotmale/)
 * (@hotmale)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-images-location/#post-4242969)
 * I don’t think though, that you have access to that through the dashboard, you
   would need to use FTP.
 *  [Maruti Mohanty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marutim/)
 * (@marutim)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-images-location/#post-4242970)
 * Yes one need to use ftp
 *  Thread Starter [aarmida](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aarmida/)
 * (@aarmida)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-images-location/#post-4243030)
 * Thanks for the info! I haven’t been able to access the site through FTP. I have
   just tried using the FTP service I normally use for all my other non-WordPress
   sites (Espresso). Do I need to add some type of permission or access from the
   site for FTP? I am kind of lost with this 😐
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-images-location/#post-4243032)
 * You need to ask your hosting company about FTP issues.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-images-location/#post-4243033)
 * Alternatively, upload the image to the media library and modify the CSS to use
   that URL.

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