Templates
Templates help your site look good. We have specially customized some of the most popular templates for you with drop down menu system which you can have a look at in the resources section. These are very rare so keep them to yourself. The downloads are only available to Blogging Empire customers.
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There are plenty of other great standard free templates around and in this work shop we will take you through how to upload and tweak a little bit.
So the template for this site is called Clean Copy 1 Right sidebar. You can pick up the clean copy series Here There is a right, a left and a 3 column version.
Another great place to find templates is http://www.romow.com/blog/ and http://wpthemes.info/ and of course the wordpress site itself http://themes.wordpress.net/
How To Upload A Theme
To load a theme you have to use a FTP program. In fact it is easier to use a FTP program for a lot of different things in wordpress. FTP links your computer with your hosting server allowing you to transfer files. See the tutorial on FTP if you don’t know how to ftp to your site. You will upload nearly all your files either in themes or plugins. In this case double click on themes.
Most themes come in their own folder so just drag the folder into the themes folder and that’s it. You can actually upload a few if you want and then use the following process to see how they look.
Activating a theme
To activate a theme all you have to do is log into your administrator panel http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin and then go to presentation.
You will see all the different themes you have uploaded. To pick a theme simply click on it. The theme you choose will always appear on the top. Now go to the top of your screen and open the page to see what your theme looks like.
Tip: I always right click and choose to open in a new tab. Then every time you do an update you can just hit the refresh button and see them instantly.
Changing the header graphic.
While looking at your theme right click on the header and it will have an option to view background image. The right click on the image to get its size and even copy.
Open up your favorite image editor, I use PhotoShop, and create your new header.
Some themes have a header upload facility and some don’t. The ones that do mean you can simply click on the tab and upload.
For those that don’t simply note the name of the image and where it is when you view the image in your browser. Make your new image and simply ftp over the old one to customize the look.
This will usually be under themes/theme name/images
There are lots of different things we can do to the theme that we will cover in the advanced section.
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