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Welcome back.

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You are now looking at the outside of our WordPress site and you'll notice that the site has a particular

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look and you may be wondering how can I change the appearance of the site.

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How can I change either the header or maybe even the footer or how can I change the overall look of

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the site.

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And in order to do that you'll need to go inside of your dashboard and probably the easiest way for

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you to make changes to the look of your site in the fastest way possible is to go and change the actual

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theme as you hover over the appearance menu.

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You'll be able to go to the themes area and you'll notice something you'll notice that WordPress will

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give you installed themes.

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It will show you the themes that are already installed.

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But now what if you want to find another theme that's entirely new.

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That will give your site a different look.

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Well in order to do that you'd go and click the Add new button and WordPress will bring you to a menu

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of free themes that you can actually use in order to change the look and the appearance of your site.

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You want to scroll through some of these themes

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they will appear there.

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Now one of the things that you'll notice is that there is a menu across the top and it says that you

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can actually do this by feature theme.

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You can also do it by the most popular themes.

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You can actually sort by the latest themes that are available to you on your WordPress site.

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You can sort by the number of favorite sites.

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And typically you can find these on WordPress that work or you can actually look for site based on certain

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filters.

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And we're going to go ahead and do that right now.

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And in this particular case if you're looking for a site with a particular color you can actually say

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that when you're actually filtering and then once you've actually filtered you can actually then do

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the search in order to do that.

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All we need to do is click apply filter and then we'll find a theme that has the color blue in it.

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We can pick one.

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And in order to preview the theme in order to see how it might look on our site we can actually click

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the preview button.

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And we'll get some idea of how the theme will actually look.

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Once we install it now in order to x out of this and go back to the theme area what we're going to do

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is we're just going to click the X there and that's going to take us back to our grouping of themes.

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And so what you want to do is to find a theme that you think really does fit what your site is going

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to be about and then you can click install.

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Now once you've clicked install what you can do is you can actually do a preview of that installation

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from the Live Preview link

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and we're actually looking at it as it's going to appear on our site.

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And when we start to make customizations now we like the look and we want to start customizing from

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that point we can actually click save and activate

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and you'll notice now that this is the outside of our word per site.

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So normally to go back to the inside what we'll do is to go to the dashboard area and we'll need to

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go back to the period's area and go to themes and you'll notice our theme is right there and it's active.

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The one that we were using before is not active in order to make customizations to that theme.

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All we need to do is click the customize button and what you'll see there is you'll see a customizing

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menu come up where we can change the site identity the colors the header and anything that we want to

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do in order to customize the site now in order to go back.

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We just added their and we are now back in the themes area and so changing the look of your site is

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that simple it's finding a theme that's appropriate it has the look and feel that you want and once

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you do that then you can start customizing OK.

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So with that thanks.

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And I will see you in another video.