CommerceCubes

Updating the Style of CommerceCubes: Mini WordPress Tutorial

In case you haven’t noticed or you are new to CommerceCubes then you’ll know I’ve changed the look of the site. The old site was simple and clean but it was also you minimal on the graphics. I will be swapping out some of the graphics from this template but i like the structure a bit better. I am also in the process of fixing the top navigation for the pages.

It’s pretty easy to switch themes in WordPress. In case you’ve never tried or just are not sure i’ve dug up some documentation to make it really easy for you…

To add a new theme to your WordPress installation, follow these basic steps:

1. Download the theme archive and extract the files it contains. You may need to preserve the directory structure in the archive when extracting these files. Follow the guidelines provided by your theme author.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, create a directory to contain your theme in the wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress. For example, a theme named Test should be in wp-content/themes/test. Your theme may provide this directory as part of the archive.
3. Upload the theme files to the new directory on your host server.
4. Follow the instructions below for selecting the new theme.

To Add the theme and make it active in WordPress just follow these steps…

Selecting the Active Theme

To select the active theme for your site:

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
2. Select the Presentation subpanel.
3. From the Select column in the table, click on Select for the theme you wish to activate.
4. To view the new look, click View Site at the top of the Panel’s screen.

Your selection should immediately become active.

Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Adding_New_Themes

It’ll take about 5 minutes to get a new WordPress Template active on your site and then you can play around with it from there. If you run into any problems feel free to post them here.

Lucas

Very WordPress’ed!