{"id":68650,"date":"2016-04-12T04:03:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T08:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=68650"},"modified":"2018-02-09T08:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:08:31","slug":"wordpress-blogging-theme-how-to-install-a-theme-manually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wordpress-blogging-theme-how-to-install-a-theme-manually.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Blogging theme. How to install a theme manually"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Support team is ready to present you a new tutorial that shows how to install WordPress Blogging theme with sample data manually.<\/p>\r\nWordPress Blogging theme. How to install a theme manually<\/a>\r\n\r\n

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  1. Extract template package.<\/p><\/li>\r\n

  2. Locate theme\/theme_name.zip<\/strong> file in the template package. Upload your theme to wp-content\/themes<\/strong> folder on the server and unzip it there:<\/p>\r\n\"wordpress_blogging_themes_how_to_install_manually_1\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t

  3. Navigate to Appearance ->Themes<\/strong> in your WordPress admin panel and activate the installed theme there:<\/p>\r\n\"wordpress_blogging_themes_how_to_install_manually_2\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

  4. After the theme activation, you should see the list of required plugins. Press on Begin installing plugins<\/strong> to start plugins installation:<\/p>\r\n\"wordpress_blogging_themes_how_to_install_manually_3\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t

  5. Select all plugins, choose install<\/strong> mode and confirm the action by pressing Apply<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\n\"wordpress_blogging_themes_how_to_install_manually_4\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t

  6. In order to import template sample data, first upload theme\/manual\/install\/uploads<\/strong> folder from the template package to wp-content<\/strong> folder on your server. Accept the replacement if folder already exists.<\/p><\/li>\r\n\t

  7. Open theme_name.sql file from \u2018theme\/manual install\u2019 folder in your text\/php editor, such as Notepad++. Replace all instances of “your_website_url_here” with the actual site url:<\/p>\r\n\"wordpress_blogging_themes_how_to_install_manually_5\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t

  8. After editing the file, import it to your site database via PhpMyAdmin tool in your Hosting Control Panel. You can refer to this detailed guide<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    ATTENTION: Importing the SQL file to your database will overwrite your existing content and website settings. DO NOT import the SQL file if you want to keep the existing content.<\/p>\r\n

    NOTE: ALWAYS back up<\/a> your database before performing any modifications<\/p>\r\n

    1.<\/strong> Open phpMyAdmin tool.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t

  9. Check your website after importing sample data. It should look like the template Live Demo. <\/p><\/li>\r\n\t<\/ol>\r\n\r\n

    Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n\r\nWordPress Blogging theme. How to install a theme manually<\/a>\r\n\r\n

    PS. About to start your own blog? Find the perfect Fashion Blog Theme WordPress<\/a> in our collection of professional templates.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Our Support team is ready to present you a new tutorial that shows how to install WordPress Blogging theme with sample data manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":68664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[728],"tags":[2216,648,1407,2405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84000,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68650\/revisions\/84000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}