Installing a New WordPress Theme using FileZilla and Cpanel

Installing your new WordPress Software in your domain is a good thing! But to make your blog beautiful and flexible, you’ll need to change the generic WordPress themes with customized themes.

With the use of Filezilla or Cpanel, you can install your new WordPress themes. However these things can be somewhat tedious so let’s begin:

Alternative 1: Installing your New WordPress theme with FileZilla

- First, download your WordPress Theme and unzip it, then save it in a location on your computer.

- Then download the FTP which is FileZilla and run. Log in the FTP with your webhost    address, your username, and password to access your files. Usually, the default Port        connection is 21 but youm ay leave this empty. Then connect.

- After connecting, you’ll be able to see the files on the computer on the left window and             your webhost root files which are on the right.

- Now locate your saved unzipped WordPress Theme.

- Now, go to the remote server of the FTP and access the public_html folder that contains             your files. If you’ve installed your new WordPress theme on your domain, then you’d see      the wordpress files and folders, and the “theme” folder where the new wordpress theme       should be.

- The file transfer will start when you drag the new unzipped wordpress folder to the        theme folder.

- Upon completion of file transfer, then log in to your wordpress admin site with your       username and password you provided when installing your wordpress software to access             your wordpress dashboard. Go to the Design, then Themes and search for your Newly             installed theme, then activate it. This should be then visible in your blog.

- Congratulations, you’ve finished your WordPress installation.

Alternative 2: Installing your New WordPress Theme using Cpanel.

This can be more tedious compared to doing it over at WordPress. It’s advisable you stick with the FTP option which transfers files faster. It also saves much time and does much of the job for you, but if you want to learn how to use Cpanel, here’s the trick.

- First, log in to your Cpanel through Cpanel webhost domain using your webhost             username and password. At the Cpanel Frontpage click Legacy File Manager.

- Now access the public_html folder by clicking its folder icon by the side and not on the text itself. Doing this shows all files and folders in your public_html and clicking the             public_html text will only show you its properties.

- Find the wp_content folder and open the icon folder. Access the Theme Folder. This is   where you upload new wordpress themes. You’ll be installing the wordpress    theme in a way the files and folders are arranged in your computer.

- Make a new Folder by clicking “create a new folder” link at the top folders’ display.        Make the overall theme folder with the theme’s name. Access the theme folder by     clicking on its icon. Simply, repeat this process with all the folders in the WordPress Theme on your computer.

- You’ll have to install these files in their respective folders according to your files on the computer. Simply click “upload files” when you’re in the Folder containing the files    originally arranged on your computer. On the upload page, click ‘browse’ and find the       files, then simply upload. Simply, clicking on the file name after upload will only show             you its properties for the file and you may also change the File permissions CHMOD. Do this for all Folders containing files arrange as it is on your computer.

You may have noticed that what you’ve been doing is transferring the files from the computer in an organized manner into your web host the way they originally are. It’s kinda more tedious unlike Filezilla that transfers the entire WordPress themes and arranges the folders and files it contains automatically, which save you much more time. But if you want to do the whole thing manually then you’re free to use Cpanel.