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How to Change Your Theme with Wordpress.com

Written by Mandy

In this post I’m going to show you how to change your blog’s theme with Wordpress.com. Everyone wants to give their blog that personal touch and make it their own, and changing your theme from the default Kubrick theme to another one is the first step.

1. Go down to the Appearance tab on the left hand side of the dashboard and go to Appearance — Themes. It should take you to the Manage Themes page:

At the top it shows the theme that you are currently using and then underneath you can browse the themes available for your blog on Wordpress.com. You can either randomly browse, A-Z or by popular. At the moment there are 81 themes available but that figure grows all the time. You’ll see under the name of the theme there is a link for activate or preview, it’s pretty self explanitory click preview and a screen will appear with a preview of what your blog would look like using that theme. If you like it you can activate it, or you can close and keep looking.

For example here is what Build a Blog with Wordpress would look like using the Connections theme:

I changed the theme already from the Kubrick theme to the Pool theme and now I want to find one that fits the blog a little better. The only must have for me is that the theme is widget ready so it can be easily added to. Remember all themes are not equal, check it out before you decide. And in my opinion no theme is perfect, lets face it, it never is there’s always something that could work better or differently – or maybe thats just me?

Here are my 3 favourite themes:

It takes two minutes to actually change the theme – and two days to decide which one to use!!!

If you want to see a Photoblogging theme in action then you could take a look at my new photoblog which I created on Wordpress.com – Mandy Jones Photography.

Mandy

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