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August 6, 2008
In today’s post, I will cover the Installation of a WordPress theme as part of the Converting WordPress Templates to work with BANS series.
The first step of installing the theme is of course, having you install WordPress through Fantastico! If you have not installed it yet, you will need to do that first.
I ran over to the Smashing Magazine list of 100 WordPress Templates and found the WP Premium Theme several days ago. The theme has many features we should look for in our site. It is low on graphics, which means it will load fast. It also has prime real estate above the fold for us to feature some banners, related to our niche market.
There is a reason I am choosing these types of themes as well… we are still learning how to Integrate WordPress with BANS, so the easier the theme… the easier it is to learn! I will also announce a new contest later today, stay tuned!
Grab the WP Premium Theme here
Watch the Video on Installing a WordPress theme
Video Length: 6:18
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Mark-
I applied this theme to my blog (and next I’ll be attempting to integrate my store), but a quick question: where is the link to the admin page? I don’t see one on this theme like there is in the ‘Meta’ section on the orginial theme.
I had to go in cpanel and find the old URL for the WP admin panel manually.
thanks.
@ HokieGlenn -
On most themes, you remove the meta login link to keep prying eyes out… The WP login is always at: /wp-admin/. So, if your blog is on the root of your domain, you would go to: www .mywebsite. com/wp-admin/
If it is in a folder, it would be similar to: www .mydomain .com/blog/wp-admin/
Mark
Thanks Mark.
I’m slugging through a WP BANS integration on a new site (wish me luck). Relying on your posts and videos (darn well read half of them so far).
One issue I have now is I have BANS installed in a /store folder off the root. For some reason the BANS software is not creating any store pages. It creates them in the BANS admin software (you can see them in the list and edit them), but if you try to view them with the URL
/www.mywordpressdomain.com/store/storepageurl
they aren’t there. I used the ‘raw BANS’ copy method to create this second BANS store. Is there something I need to do to ge the BANS software to create store pages?
Thanks.
Mark,
Great video and easy to follow directions as always.
I had no trouble uploading my first theme into my public_html>wp-content > themes folder, and activating it on my WP blog. However, when I uploaded a second theme for use in a different blog, the theme showed up in the original design>themes page only, not in the blog I intended to use it for.
I don’t need to install multiple copies of WordPress onto my root domain? do I? I was able to set up 4 WP-blogs with different UNs and PWs so why don’t the different themes appear in all of the design pages since they’ve all been loaded into the same wp-content.themes folder.
I’m sure it’s something simple that I’m missing, I just can’t figure out what it is.
Thanks in advance,
Mark R