{"id":666,"date":"2017-02-11T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostduplex.com\/kb\/?p=666"},"modified":"2017-02-11T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:07:06","slug":"how-to-manually-install-a-theme-on-wordpress-using-the-admin-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-manually-install-a-theme-on-wordpress-using-the-admin-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manually Install a Theme on WordPress Using the Admin Dashboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You downloaded a new theme from a trusted website and want to install it on your WordPress site using the WordPress Admin area. If that is the case, follow this tutorial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Login to your WordPress admin dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>Under the dashboard menu, hover over <strong>Appearance<\/strong> and click on <strong>Themes<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-dashboard-apperance-themes.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Click on <strong>Upload Themes<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-themes-upload-theme-button.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n4.<\/strong> Click on Browse and choose a theme compressed in a ZIP file from your PC\/Laptop. If your ZIP file contains a folder like an <strong>upload<\/strong>, first extract the content of uploaded files and the compressed theme file. Click on <strong>Install Now<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-themes-upload-theme-browse-zip.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> It will take a few minutes to upload a theme, and then if it is successfully installed, it will show a message as a<strong> Theme installed successfully<\/strong>. Now click on <strong>Activate<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-themes-upload-theme-activated.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations<\/strong>, you manually installed and activated a new WordPress theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You downloaded a new theme from a trusted website and want to install it on your WordPress site using the WordPress Admin area. If that is the case, follow this tutorial. &nbsp; 1. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard. 2. Under the dashboard menu, hover over Appearance and click on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}