{"id":1888,"date":"2020-09-16T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2020-09-16T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T12:11:18","slug":"wordpress-tutorial-installing-wordpress-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/tutorial-how-to\/wordpress-tutorial-installing-wordpress-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Tutorial -Installing WordPress Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This tutorial is a part of series of articles on WordPress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/knowledgebase\/wordpress-tutorial---understanding-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding WordPress<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/knowledgebase\/wordpress-tutorial---installing-and-setting-up-wordpress-on-virtono\/\" target=\"_blank\">Installing and Setting up WordPress on Virtono<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/tutorial-how-to\/wordpress-tutorial--installing-wordpress-manually\/\" target=\"_blank\">Installing WordPress Manually<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/knowledgebase\/wordpress-tutorial--navigating-in-wordpress-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Navigating in WordPress Dashboard<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/tutorial-how-to\/wordpress-tutorial--publishing-content\" target=\"_blank\">Publishing Content<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/tutorial-how-to\/wordpress-tutorial--installing-wordpress-plugins\" target=\"_blank\">Installing WordPress Plugins<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/tutorial-how-to\/wordpress-tutorial--installing-wordpress-themes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Installing WordPress Themes<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/knowledgebase\/wordpress-tutorial--optimizing-wordpress-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Optimizing WordPress Performance<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/knowledgebase\/wordpress-tutorial--keeping-wordpress-secure\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keeping WordPress Secure<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have followed the previous tutorials I hope you have gotten yourself the trusted Virtono VPS either KVM VPS or a Cloud VPS. 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