Work from Home

This blog is to provide feedback and information about the course I'm doing the Million Dollar Blueprint. I will use this blog to write about all that I learn and create as part of the program. Feel free to ask questions or leave comments and I will get back to you.
Friday, January 18th, 2008

Changing Your Blog’s Theme

Now that you have the behind the scenes look of your blog set-up you’re ready to change the outside.

Within the software download section of the Million Dollar Blueprint instructions you will see a zip file title NZPCS blog theme, you need to download this to your computer. Once you’ve downloaded and unzipped it you’re ready to upload it to your blog.

Within the instructions there is a video showing how to upload themes/plugins via ftp. If you don’t have an ftp program already you’ll need to download one - there’s plenty of free ftp programs available I personally use Coffeecup but for the most part they all work the same and look pretty similar.

Once you’re ready you need to upload the entire contents of the work from home blog theme folder to your blog’s directory eg http://work-from-home.yourdomain/wp-admin/wp-content/themes

Once done you need to go to your blog dashboard/presentation and you’ll see the theme within that page - click on it and it will now be activated

dashboard-presentation1.jpg

If you view your site now you’ll see that it’s the new work from home theme (the same as this one)Now that you have the theme installed you need to make some changes - the first of these is in your footer.php file. If you’re already signed up for adsense you need to put your publisher id in. If you’re not signed up for adsense you can remove the code entirely or place something else there.

Open your theme editor tab (under presentation) to the right of the screen you will see a list of files. Open footer.php and scroll until you see the desired section.

footer.jpg

Whenever you’re changing (adding/deleting etc) code from any of these files I always suggest you copy and paste the contents into notepad first so you have the original on standby if anything goes wrong (remember too you can always upload the file again via ftp if something drastic goes wrong.

 

 

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