How To Download Wordpress Themes

This tutorial will cover a fairly basic task, which is how to download a Wordpress theme.

Even though you can now install Wordpress themes directly from your Wordpress admin, I thought I would run through this simple exercise just in case you ever wanted to upload a theme that wasn’t hosted directly on the wordpress.org themes repository .

In the following example I thought it would be appropriate that I show you how to download the Hybrid theme, seeing how this is the theme I am currently using.

But the lesson here is applicable for almost any Wordpress theme you find on the web.

Usually when downloading a Wordpress theme you are presented with a link to a working version of the theme (Demo) and a link to download the theme file (Download).

One way to start the download is, you simply Click on the Download link. A new window will pop up asking you to Save the file.

Another way, is to place your mouse cursor over the download link, Right Click and choose the Save Link As option, as in the example below.

After choosing the Save Link As option, you should see another window open up asking where you would like to save the file on your computer.

I recommend you create a file specifically for your website, and within that file you create another file specifically for any themes you want to download and try.

Click on the Save button, the theme should start downloading to the specified file on your hard drive.

Once the theme has finished downloading, which should only take a couple of seconds, you will need to Unpack or Unzip it before it can then be uploaded to your server.

To unzip it on a Macintosh simply Double Click on the zipped file and it will automatically Unpack itself.

If your using a PC you will need to use a software that will unzip the file for you.

Seeing how I’m using Macintosh these days, It’s kinda hard for me to show you how this works, but I do know that Alzip is a very good Free program, which I have used in the past for unzipping files.

I’m sure they will have tutorials on how to use their software on their site.

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