I finally figured out how to do it! Man, it only took forever. Who else has been struggling with this platform? Fear not, Marty’s giving a tutorial, right here, right now.

O.K. First you have to find your WordPress files on your host server. Specifically, you’ll need to locate the folder listed as wp-content/themes. If you use Godaddy like me here’s how you get to it.

(1) Log in to your account.
(2) Click on Hosting and Servers on the menu bar.
(3) Click on My Hosting Account in the drop down.
(4) Click the Control Center link. If you have more than
one URL account click on the one where your blog
resides.
(5) Click on the Content bar.
(6) Click the File Manager icon.
(7) In the “html” file folder click on “wp-content”.
(8) Finally click on “themes” to find your blog theme file folder by name.

This is where you’ll transfer new theme files whenever the feeling hits you. Here’s how you do that on a Mac. You’ll have to figure out the equivalents on a PC.

(1) In the theme viewer click thru the list of selections that you prefer and download the theme(s) of your choice. Yes, you can store as many as you like which allows you to change your template at will in the future.
(2) The file will download to your desktop. I moved the file to my Applications folder because the ftp client couldn’t detect my Desktop folder.
(3) I used Godaddy’s ftp client to transfer the file into the wp-content/themes directory.
(4) Go back to your blog site and click on the Site Admin link.
(5) Click the Presentation option on your administrative menu bar and that will take you to the screen that shows all the themes that you’ve saved onto your server.
(6) Click on the theme of your choice and that will make it active.

Voila, you’re in business with a new theme. My next challenge is to figure out which file contains the code to add widgets, buttons and any custom code I might like to include. Hopefully I’ll be throwing in some new stuff soon. I’m really proud of myself! Major hurdle finally lept.

If you guys have any other helpfull hints that might be unique to a PC platform go ahead and comment here. I’m sure all tips will be appreciated by everyone with the many assorted systems out there. Don’t be shocked by any changes over the next few days. I’m going to play around now that I know what I’m doing. Later.