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How to Install a WordPress Theme Manually

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 05:39 AM PST

When you host your WordPress blog manually, it comes with a pretty big variety of bonuses. Sure, it’s a lot easier to have your blog hosted online — you don’t have to really do much in terms of heavy lifting behind-the-scenes, and the interface to tweak and adjust the way your blog looks and feels is incredibly boiled-down and simple. But for those who want to really go a little more in-depth, this can feel limiting. Sometimes we want to really get the most out of our WordPress experience, and to do this it can help to install your theme manually and host it from your very own computer. We’ll talk about how you can do this, exactly, and what you’ll need to do to get start. You might be a little intimidated at first, but you don’t need an extensive knowledge of coding or programming to install and host your own WordPress blog with an awesome custom theme that really makes your site come to life.

First, you need to go online and find an FTP client. FTP stands for “file transfer protocol,” and an FTP client is basically a program that will help you send information over the Internet to your blog — so the look, feel, content, and images that are hosted online where your blog is located will be sent via this program to the location at which your readers find it. Once you’ve downloaded your FTP client and set up your WordPress blog, download a bunch of themes that you like. Plenty of free themes are available on the official WordPress sites and elsewhere online. Use an archiving program like WinZip to unpack the files for your blog’s theme. Use your FTP client to connect with your blog, and find the folder labeled “wp-content.” This is where you’re going to upload the WordPress themes that you’ve downloaded for free off the Internet.

If you’re familiar with coding, programming, and/or web design then you’ll be able to customize these themes that you’ve downloaded to your liking. For this reason, many so-called “power” users are able to really customize and enliven their blogs in ways that the “out-of-the-box” WordPress options simply don’t allow. For those that are capable with these tools, you can adjust the themes to your liking, and add any level of customization that you’re capable of executing.

Once you’re happy with your theme, you can upload it to the “wp-content” folder using your FTP client, and then go online. You’ll be able to select the themes that you’ve uploaded and apply them to your blog, as simple as that. Finding the best WordPress hosting theme is really not as hard as some might think, and when you know exactly how to do it, it only takes a few minutes. Customizing your blog is entirely up to you, and whether you’re a seasoned designed pro, or just a novice blogger looking to engage with the back end of things a little more, WordPress is a great way to get your vision online.

Top 5 Apps for the College Crowd

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 05:39 AM PST

When you’re in college, it’s not a slight to suggest that you need all the help you can get. Especially if you’re living away from your parents, you’ve probably got a whole lot of responsibility on your plate. Full-time students have to deal with three to five classes, at least. Each of these requires a good solid of amount of hours of dedicated studying and school work at least, which hardly leaves enough time for any kind of substantial, full-time employment. Having enough money to eat and support yourself, let alone have what’s considered a living wage, can be incredibly tough, and the responsibility of earning money can really start to stand in the way of your responsibility to study and get the grades you need to get in college so you can graduate successfully. Many of us now have smartphones, whether iPhone or Android, and whichever you’ve gone with, there are a ton of applications in both the Google Play and iOS app stores that can help you get your education in the best way possible.

1. Astrid. Perhaps one of the most user-friendly and robust to-do list applications, Astrid is an absolute joy to use. It’ll give you reminders as to when you’ve got things due, and it’ll sync up with your Google Calendar and Google Tasks to make sure you’re reminded of your responsibilities, appointments, shopping lists, and just about anything that you could want to be reminded about.

2. Mint.com Financial stability is vital to the college student, and it’s often as difficult. When you don’t have the time to earn that much of it, managing what money you do have can be tough. College is when we’re supposed to have a lot of fun, right? Well, that’s tough to do if you don’t have any money. With Mint.com you can know exactly what you’ve got in the bank. It’ll also help you set up budgets and plan out goals so that you can have your finances exactly where you want them.

3. MyFitnessPal. Staying in shape is always very, very important, and the college years are the ones where a lot of us really forget to do it. Between nutrition and exercise, college students can really wind up dropping the ball. An application like MyFitnessPal can do everything from recommend a great workout regimen to help you keep track of your food intake and make suggestions as to how you might improve your diet.

4. iHomework. If you have any trouble keeping your assignment, classes, homework, and other school things in line, then iHomework is your best friend. It’s designed specifically for the student and is jam-packed with a ton of great features that’ll help you navigate your scholastic career.

5. Groupon. When you’re in college, saving money is crazy important, and Groupon helps you do it. This will also help you avoid any kind of scams or anything overpriced, so you don’t have to put those degrees in criminal justice to work.

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