Themes

Word Press themes,widgets and plugins are all over the internet. WordPress.org has a vast resource of freebies.

To use themes:

Ø Download and unzip theme.

Ø Extract to a folder of choice.

Ø Using an ftp client, upload theme folder to wp-content\themes folder. For example if you extracted the theme named ‘pretty blue’ to a folder named ‘themes’ then you would upload the folder ‘pretty blue’ to \wp-content\themes directory on your server.

Ø Go to WordPress 2.5 admin panel and choose design—-themes. You will find the uploaded theme there. Click on it and it will become the active theme.

Widgets and Plugins

The install procedure is the same for widgets and themes except they will be uploaded to the \wp-content\plugins directory.

Next, go to Plugins in the WordPress Administrator Panel and there you can activate or de-activate plugins and widgets.

After you have activated widgets, you will need to go to design——widgets to use the widgets.

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