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How-To
Choosing a theme for your blog
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WordPress.com has a lot of themes to choose from – if you have a hard time deciding on which one would work best for you, this video will talk you though the options and make sense of them
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January 13, 2009
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design (20), Themes (47), WordPress.com (18)
January 19, 2009 at 12:44 am
Oh yes… This where I spent a lot of time, and wouldn’t you know it, still wanted more options. I finally felt having my own photo in the header was very important — but that gave no options for fonts or placing information or the WordPress logo in the header. I really wanted a sort of dusty, straw sort of colored background, but that was not available for wanting to insert my chosen photo.
The Ocean Mist theme I finally chose is nice, but sort of too formal. It allows for CSS, but I doubt if I’ll ever get that far — just too simple minded.
And so, the indecision still remains, even though I’ve been blogging a couple weeks. I want to stay with WordPress themes that are really approved of because I’m afraid of running into a problem by choosing something not specifically on the WordPress list. It’s all a part of not knowing a whole lot. And I thank WordPress for everything they make available.
January 29, 2009 at 12:27 am
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March 23, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I am just setting up and find that the buttons illustrated here (‘available themes’… ‘show all themes’) are missing. Any clues? This does quite hinder progress
cheers- Mick
March 24, 2009 at 6:08 am
Sounds like you might be running a self-hosted version of WordPress? The library of themes and ability to sort through them are features of WordPress.com. On the bright side, you can download and install an infinite number of free themes for your self-hosted blog from the (linked) theme directory.
March 31, 2009 at 7:06 pm
I need new theme
April 9, 2009 at 9:33 am
How can I add themes from enternet
April 10, 2009 at 7:01 am
If you’re using WordPress.com, you can’t. For a self-hosted blog, you can find out how here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes
April 10, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Thanks for the info everyone.
-Mick
June 9, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I guess I expected too much. I’m not a CSS whiz, love changing and customizing backgrounds with cut and paste stuff, as on Blogger.com. Kind of confusing.
June 12, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I added a custom there, but the old default theme still remains. So now I have two images in my header. Does anyone know how to delete the default theme?
June 16, 2009 at 7:17 am
Hi…I am using a “Freshy” theme and note that Meta widget showing meta functions especially the Log in/Log out, is at the bottom of my draft post. The comment box is directly below.I shall be having a total of 3 posts related to travel and would like to know if this is standard format for WP. There is only one sidebar.
The appearance look too much like my dashboard with them. Are they necessary? If not how do I remove them.
Am still new at this. Thank you,
LotusLyn
March 6, 2010 at 4:08 pm
I’m sorry to say I had a lot of trouble deciphering the voice-over – I’m partially deaf and a slower delivery of the instructions would have helped me I’m sure. Thank you
March 8, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Thanks for the feedback. If you do have trouble with the voiceovers or the speakers in our videos here, make sure you check the top of the video frame to see if subtitles are available in your language.
March 23, 2010 at 5:03 pm
What about “install themes” feature?
March 24, 2010 at 1:54 am
Theme installation is not available for blogs hosted on WordPress.com.