How to Install a WordPress Theme from ThemesCorners

Installing a WordPress theme from ThemesCorners takes about two minutes once you have the .zip file in hand. This guide walks through the upload, activation and the small but important post-install checks that prevent most "why doesn't it look like the demo" support tickets.

1. Download the theme

Open the theme page on ThemesCorners and click Free Download. Your browser will save a single .zip file — do not unzip it. WordPress expects the archive as-is.

2. Upload through the dashboard

In your WordPress admin:

Go to Appearance → Themes.
Click Add New Theme at the top.
Click Upload Theme, choose the .zip you just downloaded, and press Install Now.
When the upload finishes, click Activate.

If you hit an "exceeds the maximum upload size" error, ask your host to raise upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in php.ini, or upload the unzipped folder via SFTP to wp-content/themes/ and activate from there.

3. Install the recommended plugins

After activation, most of our themes prompt you with a recommended-plugins list (Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, an optional page builder). Install the ones you actually need — skip the rest, your site will be faster.

4. Import the starter content

From Tools → Import, choose the WordPress importer and load the starter-content.xml file bundled inside the theme's /docs folder. This drops in sample pages, menus and a homepage so you have something to customise instead of a blank canvas.

5. Set the homepage

Go to Settings → Reading and set Your homepage displays to A static page, then pick the page named Home that the importer created. Save.

6. Customise

Open Appearance → Customize and walk down the panels — site identity, colours, header, footer. Every change has a live preview; nothing is published until you hit Publish.

That's it. If you get stuck, email us at hello@themescorners.com — include a screenshot and the theme name and we'll get back to you within a day.