Installing Your Press75 Theme

There are three easy ways to install your Press75 (WordPress) theme: from you WordPress admin, through FTP, or through cPanel. The process for each is below.

WordPress Admin

  1. Download your theme files from your purchase e-mail, or if that link has expired through your Account Page
  2. Log into your WordPress admin, which will be something like yoursite.com/wp-admin (replace 'yoursite.com' with your site's actual domain)
  3. Navigate to Appearance -->Themes --> Add New --> Upload Theme
  4. Click the 'Browse' button and locate the zipped theme folder on your computer, then when ready click 'Install Now'. If your theme folder is not zipped, then right click it and choose the 'Compress' option to zip it
  5. Once the theme is finished installing you'll have the option to activate the theme, live preview the theme, or return to the themes page. This means that your theme is now installed and ready for use.

FTP (including SFTP, FTPS, etc.)

  1. Download your theme files from your purchase e-mail, or if that link has expired through your Account Page
  2. Unzip your theme folder. For example, if you purchased the Folio theme you would download a file called folio.zip, that unzips to 'folio'
  3. Using an FTP client (FileZilla, Cyberduck, or Transmit are good options), connect to your server and navigate to the wp-content/themes directory. If you aren't sure of your FTP credentials your host will be able to help you retrieve them
  4. Once you've found the wp-content/themes directory, drag-and-drop your (unzipped) theme folder from your computer and into the wp-content/themes directory. The end result would be something like wp-content/themes/folio
  5. Once the theme is finished uploading, log into your WordPress admin, which will be something like yoursite.com/wp-admin (replace 'yoursite.com' with your site's actual domain)
  6. Navigate to Appearance --> Themes, and you should see your theme ready for activation

Hosting cPanel

  1. Download your theme files from your purchase e-mail, or if that link has expired through your Account Page
  2. Log into your hosting providers cPanel, and access the 'File Manager' option
  3. If WordPress is installed in your root directory then you will want to navigate to public_html/wp-content/themes; or, if it's in a sub-directory it would look something like this: public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes
  4. Once in the themes directory, use cPanel's 'Upload File(s)' option to upload your zipped theme folder. If your theme folder is not zipped, then right click it and choose the 'Compress' option to zip it
  5. Once the theme is finished uploading, click on it and select the 'Extract File Contents' option
  6. Once the theme is finished extracting, log into your WordPress admin, which will be something like yoursite.com/wp-admin (replace 'yoursite.com' with your site's actual domain)
  7. Navigate to Appearance --> Themes, and you should see your theme ready for activation

Reference: Using Themes (WordPress Codex)