How do you install themes

Extract file and upload to /wp-content/themes directory.

After you extract the zip file, it’s an entire folder with 45-50 files–not a single file. As far as I can tell, you can’t use an FTP to upload an entire folder at one time. I uploaded a theme file-by-file and it seemed to work, but now the appearance is clearly more messy than the theme looks on wordpress.com.

Am I overlooking something huge here? Is there one magic file that’s all you need to upload? Is there a way to upload the entire folder at one time in an FTP client (I’m using the GoDaddy file manager)?

You can also add a theme in the WP admin, see “appearance” “themes” “add”. As for ‘the old way’, just extract and upload the entire folder. Most FTP-clients can do that.

I figured it out…via the “upload tab” where gangleri specified, I uploaded the zip file (single file) that I downloaded. I looked back at the GoDaddy FTP and the window that pops up only allows you to upload one file at a time (not folders).

Still, it was disappointing to find that www.remarpro.com had many fewer themes loaded already to choose from, and that the popular theme I found on wordpress.com had to be downloaded then uploaded manually. This seems to be a recurring theme…I thought this switch was supposed to make it easier, but it seems to be the opposite so far.

www.remarpro.com is about power and flexibility, not necessarily ‘ease of use’

WP.org doesn’t include themes to choose from, as you are uploading WP to your own server, and multiple themes would bloat the software. It’s better for most users to find and upload, or create their own themes.

Also, if you are on Godaddy, you don’t even need to use FTP for themes. You can navigate to your themes directory, click upload, and find the zip file for your theme and upload it, then just check your newly uploaded theme and click unarchive from godaddy’s file manager….uploaded and unzipped in about 4 steps

Hi, I’m fairly new to uploading themes although I already did so for my two websites.

@rvoodoo When I use your advice, and upload my chosen theme via my blog, I get the message:

Warning: tmpfile() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/www/ask-roebok.com/blog/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php on line 118

Could not copy file /ask-roebok.com/blog/wp-content/upgrade/blue-drop/blue-drop/comments.php

Do you know what I have to change on this line (118) or am I doing something wrong??

Thanks in advance for any help!

R?ebok

@rvoodoo

okay, sorry, I uploaded it manually using FileZilla. No further probs!