{"id":20,"date":"2007-03-31T17:39:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T22:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/31\/changing-the-look-of-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:05:07","slug":"changing-the-look-of-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/31\/changing-the-look-of-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing WordPress Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> default theme looks nice but it might not project the right image for your blog.  If this is the case, you&#8217;ll be happy to know that the folks at WordPress have made changing your blog&#8217;s appearance as easy as changing your socks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fairly well documented process but here&#8217;s a quick rundown:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Find a theme you like:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wpthemes.alexking.org\/browser.php\">Alex King Theme Browser<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/themes\/\">WordPress Theme Viewer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/49-most-downloaded-wordpress-themes-of-all-time\/\">Most Popular<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2007\/02\/09\/83-beautiful-wordpress-themes-you-probably-havent-seen\/\">83 Themes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Download it.<\/li>\n<li>Decompress it if necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Copy it to a safe place on your PC.<\/li>\n<li>Upload the entire folder into your &#8220;wp-content\/themes&#8221; folder.<\/li>\n<li>Login to your WordPress Administration panel.<\/li>\n<li>Open the &#8220;Presentation\/Themes&#8221; section.<\/li>\n<li>Select the new theme from your Available Themes list.<\/li>\n<li>Check out your new look.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If your newly installed theme shows up in the list without a preview image you can create your own preview using your blog as content.  All you need to do is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Activate the theme.<\/li>\n<li>View your site.<\/li>\n<li>Press the PrintScreen key.<\/li>\n<li>Paste the image into an image editor (Photoshop etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Crop and resize to taste.  Any size will do but smaller loads faster while larger may look better.<\/li>\n<li>Save the resultant image in the PNG image format as &#8220;screenshot.png&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Upload the image to your theme&#8217;s corresponding directory &#8220;wp-content\/themes\/ThemeName\/screenshot.png&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve installed a theme which meets all your major design requirements the next thing to do is add any extra functionality you may desire.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon, Plugins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to find and install beautiful new WordPress themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[43,20],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-development","tag-themes","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}