Hi, this is Chris Masiello vitmincm.com and today we’re going talk about using Word Press Themes to customize the look and feel of your WordPress Blog. So as you noticed I'm at the home page of my word press blog that I setup in these series of—and it looked pretty plain and boring. When I switch over here to the dashboard for my WordPress blog and if you look under appearance, there's themes, widgets, editors. So I'm going to click on themes and make sure you have two default themes that come built in with WordPress. So it's the default and the classic, so I have the default one used right now. If I click on the classic, you’ll it pulls it up and shows me what it looks like. If I switch over here, it looks different, obviously some things like the colors are different, but also some of the fonts and layer items are different. I'm going to go up here to the top and click activate WordPress classic, go back to my blog, refresh it, and you’ll notice the look and field changes. And I can just come back here, if I didn’t like that, I could switch back to the default one, click activate, refresh it again, and switch the theme again.
So the two themes that are there by default, the default and the classic, they're pretty boring and kind of crappy. But if you want to get new themes or different themes, you can come down here and click this link, add new themes, and you’ll see there are several different ways you can search and find new themes. If you want to look base on criteria, let's say certain colors, and how many columns they have, the way they're laid out. Other features, you could do that, or you click on feature, you’ll see ones that are being featured by WordPress.org, if you click on newest, you’ll see some of the newest themes that are available. If you click recently updated, you’ll see some older themes that had been updated with new features, so if I click on the feature, and look on some of the ones that they’ve featured.
So for instance, this one pixel, I'm going to click preview and see what it looks like. So it's kind of weird, interesting, I could scroll around and look at it. If I like it, I just click install, install amount, and it will install the theme. So if I go back to the theme installer, I could search for some other ones, I'm going to go back to featured, scroll down a little. And this one here, Arclite, you got a completely different look and feel, I’ll hit preview and see what that looks like. So I kind of like that one, so what I’ll do is close the preview and click install, select install now. And it will install that theme.
So now, if I click back on the themes link, to see in addition to the two that I had, I had those two new ones, and if when I’ll take at one, I’ll just hit activate. And it's been activated and you’ll see it's placed to the top here. If I go back to my site, click refresh, you’ll see that that new theme has been added, that’s what it looks like. If I click on a single post, I can see what it looks like for a single post. I'm going to go back here and see what the one looks like, so I’ll activate Arclite, come back and refresh the page. And you’ll see this is what my home page looks like, so that what's that looks like. Again, completely different, and if you like it you can do that, or if not, you can go back here and click add new themes and search through, and there are just millions of different themes you can look through.
You could also look for professional themes, which you will add in a pattern of pay money for. One of the things you could do is just go to Google and type in free premium WordPress themes or premium WordPress themes, or professional blog themes and you’ll be able to find tons and tons of people that have free ones and tons of people that are willing to sell you. So that’s some of the things you could do with themes using your WordPress Blog.
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