Your website’s appearance and design are determined by your WordPress theme.
It’s crucial to take this into account because you want your website to be user-friendly and appear professional.
There are a ton of “niche” WordPress themes available because you’ll also want it to complement the goal of your WordPress website.
For instance, there are themes specifically designed for portfolios if you’re building a website to display your work. Alternatively, you can search for specific food blog themes if you’re starting a food blog and there are more themes designed for diverse niches.
Selecting a “multipurpose” theme that you may modify to fit a range of niches is a great choice. We actually recommend applying this generalist strategy in place of looking for a niche-specific theme.
The majority of high-quality multipurpose themes come with hundreds of niche-specific importable starter sites. You therefore have a great deal of versatility when using a “one” multipurpose theme that offers you more than 200 various designs to pick from.
On that note, we recommend Astra as the best multipurpose theme for any starter site.
Astra has more than 230 pre-made starter sites that you can import with a few clicks for different niches.
That’s why for the remainder of our theme installation guide, we will be using the Astra theme. Still, various themes can be handled using the same basic principles.
After selecting your chosen theme, you need to install it on your WordPress website. The steps to install your WordPress theme are listed below.
Go to the WordPress Admin Panel and log in.
Go to Appearance > Themes.
Next, select the Add New option located at the top of the page, and input the theme’s name into the search bar.
Press the “Activate” button once the installation is finished.
Installing a Premium Theme
If you selected a premium theme, you have to upload the theme’s files via your WordPress dashboard.
Get the theme files from the theme vendor and download them.
Go to Appearance > Themes > Add new to manually install the theme.
Open the “Upload Theme” tab.
Click the “Choose File” button to find the theme’s file on your computer.
You will see the file displayed under Appearance > Themes when it has been uploaded.
To finish installing the theme, click the Activate button.
Now that your theme is set up and operational, you can begin organizing the layout of your website. To find out more about that, continue reading.
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