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Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on January 6, 2011 at 2:31pm

What you need to figure out here is what you actually have access to.  If you don't have the proper credentials to upload and download files (or the host doesn't allow you to), you might be a bit stuck.  My guess is that you shouldn't have much of a problem, though.  Look in your host's knowledge base/administration areas for references to FTP and see if you can figure out what server to connect to and with what username/password.

 

What you'll need to do is find a replacement theme you like and upload it to your host using an FTP or SFTP client (FileZilla, CyberDuck, etc.), then go back and enable the theme in WP-Admin.

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Permalink Reply by jaminicole on January 6, 2011 at 2:46pm

Oh! Thank you, thank you..I have all of the admin cred, just none of the admin know-how :)

 

I'll do some digging to see if I can do that. Once the theme is uploaded, will I be able to change it at all via Dashboard?

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Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on January 6, 2011 at 2:47pm

Yup. Once the files itself are where they're supposed to go, you'll see the theme in the Dashboard.

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Permalink Reply by cooper on January 6, 2011 at 2:56pm

This is the link for A2 hosting for this http://wiki.a2hosting.com/index.php/WordPress#Installing_WordPress

 

 

but actually all you have to do is log in to wordpress itself, go to dashboard, then themes,( when you find a theme you like download the zip file to your local machine) and then you upload it and unzip it right from the wordpress dashbaord, wp unzips it for you, you don't need to do all that other stuff at all just for a new theme, though it really doesn't hurt to learn, it's not necessary for installing themes.

 

 

I use Fire FTP when I do use them though it's pretty easy.

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Permalink Reply by jaminicole on January 6, 2011 at 3:51pm

Thanks! I'll try that first since it sounds easiest.

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