How Do I Set Up A Blog – WordPress Themes
In our last discussion of How Do I Setup A Blog we added WordPress by using Fantastico on the cPanel at our host. In this article we will continue with How Do I Setup A Blog as we select a Theme, upload it and add plugins. I am going to build a Niche AdSense Blog starting with 3 to 4 articles regarding childhood obesity. More articles will be added later. Teen obesity may not be a real profitable type of niche blog but it is a subject I know something about and can write on. Our goal will be to attract people to the blog who will in turn click on Google AdSense or affiliate advertising that may be added. If you would like to know more about niche blogs, here is an excellent article by DoshDosh. To learn more about Google Adsense check out “What’s AdSense?”
At WordPress and many other places you will find lots of free themes. Basically a theme is the design and layout you see when you are looking at a website. To see a variety of free themes click here.
There are also a number of premium themes that you can purchase. For some of my AdSense Niche blogs I have used a series of Niche Adsense themes by Mark Mason. Mark presently offers a series of 12 professionally made themes for a very low price of $27.00. For some of my blogs I have also used the Revolution Theme Series by Brian Gardner. The Revolution Theme is a beautiful theme that is great for many types of blogs.
For Teenage Obesity we are going to use a free Adsense ready SEO theme called ProSense from DoshDosh. This is the first time that I have used the ProSense theme but it looks great. If you would like to see, read about or download the ProSense theme from DoshDosh.
Once the selected theme is downloaded to your hard drive you need to go to your cPanel and upload it.
Uploading A Theme
Go to the FTP Client on your computer that you uploaded earlier. I use FileZilla which is a free ftp client and will use it is as the example as to what to do. You may want to check out the FileZilla Quick Guide.
If you have not yet added your domain to your FTP client I will try to explain it in non-technical terms even though I am good at confusing myself when it comes to this technical stuff.
After activating FileZilla, directly below the tile bar you see the word File, click on that.
A box titled Site Manager come up, click on that. At the bottom you will click on New Site.
Above you will see New FTP site highlighted. In the highlighted area type either the site name or another name that will identify the site to you.
On the right hand side you see several white boxes. The top box is named Host: In that box type in your domain and instead of using www use ftp. For my site I typed ftp.teenageobesity.us/ naturally you need to use your own site information.
In the boxes with the header Port: The number I used was 21.
The next box down is a drop down box titled Servertype: You want to select FTP.
On the next line is the word Logontype with the choices Anonymous, Normal, Account. I checked Normal.
You will then type in the Username and Password that you previously selected to access the cPanel at your host.
When the panel loads you will see a list of files. Open the file titled public_html, which brings you to another screen with a number of files on it.
Open the file titled wp-content. We now see some more files.
Open the file titled themes. You now should see a file titled classic and another default. These are the two default wordpress themes.
To upload the theme that you previously downloaded, Locate on your hard drive in the box on the left titled Local Site and drag that file over and drop it in the theme file.
As soon as the upload is completed you will be able to log into WordPress to check and see if your theme successfully uploaded to it. If you need additional help use the FileZilla Quick Guide.
As we continue with How Do I Setup A Blog we will next upload and active the plugins that we are going to use with the theme. I am looking forward to your visit and would appreciate your comments.
Techless Terry
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