WordPress has pretty much become the industry standard for BLOGGING. It is well liked by bloggers for its versatility and useability. It is also well loved by developers who continue to create great looking themes and extremely powerful plugins, many of which are free to use.
For the fitness professional this is great news as most of us are not tech savvy enough to get down and dirty with the code, but we can now do many things to our blogs to make them look more attractive and professional as well as deal with the all important Search Engine Optimization stuff!
The theme of your BLOG changes the overall look of your BLOG. The colours, the layout, fonts and well as functionality. Using WordPress standard themes are pretty dull, if you are creating a wordpress blog via WordPress.com then your selection is limited to some pretty basic looking sites.
However as discussed in the previous BLOG post, getting your own domain and a webhost to install WordPress on to, makes your choices much wider.
You have the ability to upload ANY theme you like when you go this route. This is the way 95% of my BLOGs are created, specifically my Personal Training in Luxembourg business.
The process for uploading a new theme is pretty simply, if you are not so tech savvy, getting a geek to do this is not a particularly tough job.
First of all you’ll need to find a BLOG theme that you like. There are hundreds out there for free, or you pay for a premium theme or pay for a developer/designer to create one from scratch for you. Here is my list of bookmarks I use to find a theme:
- When you find a theme you like download it, or tell your geek where to download it
- They normally come as a zipped file, which you’ll need to extract on to your computer
- You’ll need to access your webhost via FTP and browse to the following folder where WordPress is installed /wp-content/themes/ This is where you’ll need to copy the entire folder of your theme you downloaded.
- Once copied across, enter the dashboard of your BLOG and select “Appearance” and then “Themes”
- You’ll see options to select either the standard BLOG themes or the one you just uploaded. Click on it and it will display a preview of the page. To activate click on the link in the top right hand side of the preview screen.
That’s it done!
Open your Blog to see what it now looks like.
You may want to hire a designer to change the header graphic on some themes so it fits with your content. Other than that there is little else to do with the theme.
I appreciate technically this may seem beyond your current knowledge. I want to hear your comments on how comfortable you are at doing this yourself or if it is completely alien to you?
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