Installing a New Theme Manually in WordPress You downloaded a new theme from trusted website and want to install it on your WordPress site using the WordPress Admin area. If that’s the case, follow this tutorial. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard. Under the dashboard menu, hover over “Appearance” and click on “Themes”. Click on “Upload Themes”. Click on Browse and chose a theme, which is compressed in a ZIP file, from your PC/Laptop. If your ZIP file contains a folder like “upload”, first extract the content of uploaded files and the compressed theme file. Click on “Install Now”. It will take a few minutes to upload a theme, and then, if it is successfully installed, it will show a message like “Theme installed successfully”. Now click on “Activate”. Congratulations, you manually installed and activated a new WordPress theme. Updated on June 1, 2017 Was this article helpful? Yes No Related Articles Deleting a Theme from WordPress Installing a New Theme in WordPress Removing a post in WordPress Creating your first blog post in WordPress How to remove sample data from a WordPress blog How to access the WordPress admin account
