Trouble with installing theme

  • danidanidani

    (@danidanidani)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    I am very new to creating a website so please excuse my not understanding of how this whole process works. I signed up with host sight Arvixe and installed WordPress through Softaculous. I followed the instructions carefully but still have the 404 not found error codes. I went to look back at my themes and the three basic demo themes were there but when going to add a new theme or search for a new one none popped up or were even displayed. Will someone tell me what I did wrong or if there was a step I missed?

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  • Digico Paris

    (@digico-paris)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    A few basic instructions, if automated setup didn’t work.

    Launch a FTP program (for example Filezilla, free ftp software on Mac, Windows & Linux).

    With WordPress, themes are stored in a folder called “wp-content/themes/thistheme”. So you need to upload theme in a folder inside “wp-content/themes/”. If you added a theme called “thisnewtheme”, on a production website, it will look like http://www.mysite.com/ (but real theme folder is mysite.com/wp-content/themes/whateverthemenamefolder).

    Then, you need to choose this theme as main theme in wordpress admin settings to become effective (save then refresh page – F5 on Windows browsers). Once done, check your website (for example, http://www.plants.com or http://www.plants.com/wp to see what it is like.

    Alternatively, you can import themes from dashboard, in themes options (in general a zip file with a similar folder organization).

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