Espreson has discussed how-to’s & resource of quality themes in Good Blogging Practice Part8. Now the point of discussion is uploading the new theme successfully. Your wordpress blog files and folders are generally located at httpdocs or public_html at hosted server. Sometimes this folder are hosting provider dependent as par where they want to put site root folder. If you don’t find your site root folder as httpdocs or public_html, then no need to worry,  just ask your hosting provider where is sites root folder. So, here is the process how to get ready with the new theme,

1. Download the desired theme on Desktop
2. Generally downloaded theme comes zipped, so, unzip it
3. Open up your FTP manager(SmartFTP or FileZilla or any other you prefer)
4. Locate httpdocs or public_html or root folder as per your hosting provider
5. Go to wp-content folder(comes under root folder)
6. Then find themes folder under wp-content
7. Upload the new theme into themes folder (If you are using FileZilla then from there go to desktop –> select theme folder which you have unzipped then drag-n-drop it into the themes folder or if you are using SmartFTP then minimize it –> drag-n-drop your new theme folder into themes folder)
8. Now login(http://your-domain-name.com/wp-login.php) using your username and password to wordpress control panel
9. Go to Presentation and select the newly uploaded theme
10. Now you are ready to see the result by clicking View site

So, your new blog is up. Now its time to customize the blog to make it more versatile and effective.
How to dot that? Will be continued next..

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