Welcome back.
You are now looking at the outside of our WordPress site and you'll notice that the site has a particular
look and you may be wondering how can I change the appearance of the site.
How can I change either the header or maybe even the footer or how can I change the overall look of
the site.
And in order to do that you'll need to go inside of your dashboard and probably the easiest way for
you to make changes to the look of your site in the fastest way possible is to go and change the actual
theme as you hover over the appearance menu.
You'll be able to go to the themes area and you'll notice something you'll notice that WordPress will
give you installed themes.
It will show you the themes that are already installed.
But now what if you want to find another theme that's entirely new.
That will give your site a different look.
Well in order to do that you'd go and click the Add new button and WordPress will bring you to a menu
of free themes that you can actually use in order to change the look and the appearance of your site.
You want to scroll through some of these themes
they will appear there.
Now one of the things that you'll notice is that there is a menu across the top and it says that you
can actually do this by feature theme.
You can also do it by the most popular themes.
You can actually sort by the latest themes that are available to you on your WordPress site.
You can sort by the number of favorite sites.
And typically you can find these on WordPress that work or you can actually look for site based on certain
filters.
And we're going to go ahead and do that right now.
And in this particular case if you're looking for a site with a particular color you can actually say
that when you're actually filtering and then once you've actually filtered you can actually then do
the search in order to do that.
All we need to do is click apply filter and then we'll find a theme that has the color blue in it.
We can pick one.
And in order to preview the theme in order to see how it might look on our site we can actually click
the preview button.
And we'll get some idea of how the theme will actually look.
Once we install it now in order to x out of this and go back to the theme area what we're going to do
is we're just going to click the X there and that's going to take us back to our grouping of themes.
And so what you want to do is to find a theme that you think really does fit what your site is going
to be about and then you can click install.
Now once you've clicked install what you can do is you can actually do a preview of that installation
from the Live Preview link
and we're actually looking at it as it's going to appear on our site.
And when we start to make customizations now we like the look and we want to start customizing from
that point we can actually click save and activate
and you'll notice now that this is the outside of our word per site.
So normally to go back to the inside what we'll do is to go to the dashboard area and we'll need to
go back to the period's area and go to themes and you'll notice our theme is right there and it's active.
The one that we were using before is not active in order to make customizations to that theme.
All we need to do is click the customize button and what you'll see there is you'll see a customizing
menu come up where we can change the site identity the colors the header and anything that we want to
do in order to customize the site now in order to go back.
We just added their and we are now back in the themes area and so changing the look of your site is
that simple it's finding a theme that's appropriate it has the look and feel that you want and once
you do that then you can start customizing OK.
So with that thanks.
And I will see you in another video.