Installing a theme
The basic steps to installing a theme are:
1. Find a theme. I’m going to go with this one for now: WP- Andreas01 1.3
2. Download the theme to your desktop. It will probably be a zip folder, if so unzip/unpack it.
3. Check for any read me text files or the theme’s homepage for any additional instructions. Most of the time there won’t be any.
4. Upload the theme folder using an FTP program or your host’s web file manager to the “themes” folder inside your “wp-content” folder (you’ll find this in your main blog folder).
5. Once uploaded, go to Presentation/Themes and your new theme should be listed. Click on it and it will be applied.
6. Check for compatibility with your new theme.
Eg In WP- Andreas01 1.3 there is no Links template so the Links link doesn’t give you a Links summary, but the archives link doesn’t work but THERE is an archives template so this might be a bug. In the comments on the theme homepage there was the following suggestion:
Fixed it.
Replaced line 19 in archive.php
“Read more »’); ?>”
with
“”
But I didn’t find that it worked. And strangely enough, in my Write Page I lost the ability to apply templates to pages. Grrrr… It’s a lovely looking theme but I’m feeling too lazy to try and work out the problem. I believe version 1.5 of the theme is soon on its way, so I’ll wait for then.
So to uninstall the theme, you can just click on another theme in Presentation/Themes and that will change it to something else, but if you want it off your server, just delete that theme’s folder in your “themes” folder in “wp-content” in your blog folder.
I redid the steps with the very simple and elegant BlogTxt and while I was there I also installed the Sandbox theme, which gives you a great foundation for customisations… I’m going to be tinkering around with that one later but it doesn’t hurt to have it installed now even if no one sees it yet. (Both these building block themes are from plaintxt.org.)
Andreas wrote:
There are no “archive” or “links” page templates included in the WP-Andreas01 theme. It is not any strange bug or problem, only a feature that some themes have (usually Kubrick modifications) and others don’t have.
However, adding these template files wouldn’t take more than a few minutes. Send me an e-mail, describe how it worked for in your previous theme and I’ll do my best to help you get your templates back.
Posted 23 Nov 2006 at 10:00 pm ¶
catherine wrote:
It doesn’t surprise me that I have made a mistake as it is one of the more popular themes out there and I’m only a small way up the learning curve. I’ve emailed back for some instructions and I’ll post what I end up figuring out.
It’s such a simple and pretty theme!
Posted 24 Nov 2006 at 10:00 pm ¶