Wordpress Troubles...

[Emoney]

So I installed wordpress on a new domain. Under a "blog" subdirectory,
so I go to /blog/wp-admin/ but it just shows a picture of my home page (which
has no links).

Shouldn't the admin page be like a wordpress admin login page?

[Jesus Perez]

It sounds like you did everything right.

Can you elaborate on "a picture of my home page"? What exactly do you see?

[Emoney]

ok I fixed my problem. Now I have another one. Noob question.

How do I change the wordpress theme? I have one downloaded in a folder.

Im supposed to upload via FTP to the "themes" folder, but I don't know how
to upload via FTP. Can you explain that real quick?

[thadroe]

Originally Posted by Emoney

ok I fixed my problem. Now I have another one. Noob question.

How do I change the wordpress theme? I have one downloaded in a folder.

Im supposed to upload via FTP to the "themes" folder, but I don't know how
to upload via FTP. Can you explain that real quick?

There's a lot of ways...but I'd ask how did you upload Wordpress to begin with? You'd just connect and upload the theme folder the same way.

Do you have cPanel with your hosting? If so, you can just go to file manager, navigate to the themes folder and upload it.

[Emoney]

I used fantastico to install wordpress, it was easy.

But I'm not sure how to customize the template.

Am I supposed to upload the folder with the template in it?
Or a single file?

[jhongren]

Originally Posted by Emoney

I used fantastico to install wordpress, it was easy.

But I'm not sure how to customize the template.

Am I supposed to upload the folder with the template in it?
Or a single file?

Do you have a ftp which makes the whole uploading of Wordpress themes much easier?

And when you say customise, what do u mean?

John

[Jesus Perez]

You need to unzip the downloaded template. When you unzip, it will be a folder. Move that folder inside the 'themes' folder. It should look like this...

public_html
-blog
--wp-content
---themes
----template folder

You can learn about FTP on youtube.

YouTube - How To Upload A Wordpress Theme Via FTP...

[Max Whitson]

Do you want to customize it or do you want to go online and download a completely new one?

If you want to download a new one just Google "free wordpress themes" and pick the one you like.

then download a FTP client. I use FireFTP, but another one I heard was good is called Smart FTP.

Then enter all the information in your FTP client. You will find the information in your Cpanel.

After that connect to your server and FTP the theme folder that you downloaded (the them folder should have a name) to the folder wp-content/themes.

When that is done go to your admin area and click on design. You should see your theme that you want in the available themes section. Just click it and activate it.

Hope this helps,
Max

[DerrickMarkotter]

Yaro Starak has a great set of free WordPress tutorial videos at www.becomeablogger.com

[Jamie Iaconis]

Originally Posted by Emoney

So I installed wordpress on a new domain. Under a "blog" subdirectory,
so I go to /blog/wp-admin/ but it just shows a picture of my home page (which
has no links).

Shouldn't the admin page be like a wordpress admin login page?

Yes...

If I hear you correctly, you need to:

Go to /wp-login.php and see what happens!

Jamie

[Emoney]

k I fixed all this, thanks guys.

So how do I upload images to host on cPanel? sorry for noob questions.

[jhongren]

Originally Posted by Emoney

k I fixed all this, thanks guys.

So how do I upload images to host on cPanel? sorry for noob questions.

You can create a sub-folder /pictures under public_html and store your pictures there.

John

[logocheckout]

Anybody available to help me to install my blog, theme, and products?