WordPress theme is a file that contains the set of codes of PHP, javascript, CSS style sheet, and HTML which gives the design and look to your WordPress website. Themes Customize your website gives the layout, design, and color to your website it decides how your website elements will look like.
When you first create your WordPress website and installed WordPress it comes with the default theme. you can anytime change this theme according to your requirements and what facility you are going to provide on your website. Good themes make your website look more attractive, user friendly and hence improve the user engagement on your website.
If you have good knowledge of coding then you can create your own custom theme for your unique website.
How the WordPress themes work: The WordPress theme is a file containing the HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript which controls how your blog post, pages, and structure of the website will look.
When you change your theme it doesn’t change your post content, user’s data, information, and many data that is stored in the database. the theme only changes how all this data will be displayed on the screen when any visitor comes to the website. There are many themes that you can use for your website, but before installing any theme you should first ensure that the theme you are using is lite and loads faster for your website.
OceanWP is the best WordPress blog theme which is completely free and lightweight for blog websites. let’s see how we can install the OceanWP theme on our WordPress blog step by step.
How to install the OceanWP theme: For installing the OceanWP theme you should have to install WordPress on your website. By default WordPress already has installed the default theme on your site. But now we are going to see how we can install the OceanWP theme for our blog.
Step 1: By default, there is the theme that is preinstalled by WordPress website.
Default WordPress Theme
To add a new theme go to the WordPress dashboard of your website and then go to appearance and then go to themes.
Step 2: After clicking on theme, then click to Add New button to add new theme.
Step 3: After clicking on Add New, search the OceanWp in the search box.
Step 4: And then click on install button to install the theme.
Step 5: After installation click on Activate button to activate the theme.
Now, the OceanWP theme will be successfully installed on your WordPress blog website.
Step 6: Now your OceanWP theme is ready on your website you can see it by directly visiting to your website.
Website with OceanWP theme
Now, you see that the look and design of your website is completely changes by just using the new theme i.e. OceanWP theme.
