How to Install Responsive Theme

Responsive can be installed and used as any standard free WordPress theme. There are three ways to install it. Let’s look at them one by one.

From WordPress Theme Directory #

To install Responsive theme from the WordPress admin dashboard, follow these steps:

Step 1: Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard.

Step 2: Go to Appearance > Themes > Add New

Step 3: Search for Responsive on the search bar

Step 4: Click on Install Now to start installing the Responsive theme

Step 5: Activate Responsive theme

By Uploading Zip File #

If you want to install the Responsive theme manually, go through these steps:

Step 1: Download the latest Responsive theme from the WordPress Repository

Step 2: Log in to your WordPress Dashboard

Step 3: Go to Appearance > Themes > Add New

Step 4: Click on Upload Theme and upload the downloaded theme zip file

Step 5: Click on Install Now to start installing the Responsive theme

Step 6: Click on Activate

FTP Installation #

To install the Responsive theme via FTP:

Step 1: Download the Responsive theme zip from the WordPress repository

Step 2: Unzip the Responsive theme zip file

Step 3: Open your WordPress site via FTP. We would recommend you to use FileZilla

Step 4: From FTP, visit the root of the WordPress install

Step 5: Now visit wp-content folder > themes

Step 6: Upload Responsive unzipped file from step 2

Step 7: Once you have completed the installation process, you can log in to your WordPress Dashboard and activate the theme by going to the Appearance > Themes.

To have a better understanding of how to install and activate Responsive Theme, watch this video: