Blogging: Kill Kubrick!
Too late for Stanley because he’s already left the planet. No, I’m not talking about the director… I’m talking about the theme!
I do a lot of quick blog evaluations for people for Website Spotlight calls for The ListBuilding Club, in ListBuilding 411 and in my own Blogging4Boomers, and I always want to cringe when I see the old WordPress blog default theme… Kubrick.
It’s a nice, clean theme, I agree. But it just SCREAMS, “Newbie!”
You totally need to get a new theme and upload it to your hosting account, then change it on your blog. And no, changing the color of the header won’t do it. Get off your bum butt and get a new freakin’ theme! They’re free at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes, and they’re quite easy to install.
Here’s how it works:
- Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/themes and find a theme you like
- Download it to your desktop
- Unzip it
- Look inside the theme folder to see if there’s another folder inside.
- Open an FTP program
- On your server, navigate to wp-content/themes folder
- If there’s a double folder for the theme, you want to upload the one inside to wp-content/themes
- Go into your blog admin area
- Click Appearance in the left-hand navigation panel
- Select the new theme
- If you like the preview, click “Activate theme” in the upper right-hand corner
If you decide you hate the theme, you can always go back to Kubrick by clicking the theme, as above. Then, go find another.
Usually, I download 3 or 4 at a time, upload them all and then, pick the one I want. Not all themes will work with your content or what you have in your sidebar, so don’t think you can pick any theme and it will be fine. Usually, that’s the case, but not always.
But it’s that simple… do it!
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May 8th, 2009 at 2:27 pm #
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