Add Theme (External) - Aberdeen

There are more templates to be found at Drupal's home page.

These are 'external' or contributed works and not found in your Drupal original installation.

We need to download the themes to our computer and upload into our cPanel folders. In this case we make our external available for all sites (though currently we only have one site my_domain.com). So we create/put in /sites/all/themes/[here]

In this example we add one theme named 'Aberdeen'. Try the others later.





Create Folders In Our Computer First

In your harddisk, create a new folder:

Select > My Computer > Local Disk(C:) > File > New > Folder > [Enter folder name] 'drupal_themes'




Get Drupal Themes, Download To Your Computer And Upload To cPanel

Go to Drupal Project Themes

Scroll down > Select > Aberdeen > 5.x-1.7 > **Download: aberdeen-5.x-1.7.tar.gz
> [save to folder] c:/drupal_themes/[put file here] > Save
Note: ** md5_file hash: fc7f0...... It is always good to check/authenticate the file before download using the md5 method.

Go to http://www.my_domain.com/cpanel

Login username and password.

Select > File Manager > Go > public_html > sites > all > New Folder > [New Folder Name] themes > Create New Folder >
(continue) themes > Upload > [look for your c:/drupal_theme folders] select aberdeen-5.x-1.7.tar.gz > Open (...wait till 100% complete...) > X (close window]
(continue) > [select file] aberdeen-5.x-1.7.tar.gz > Extract > [/public_html/sites/all/themes] > Extract File(s)> [message 'Extracting Archives.....'] > Close

Log out.




Website Includes Aberdeen, Enable And Change Site To Aberdeen Theme

Go to your Drupal website at http://www.my_domain.com/

Login username 'eve' and password

Select > Administer > Site building > Themes >


Note: The website 'automatically' includes this new theme 'marinelli'.

(continue) > [aberdeen] > [Enabled] check > [Default] check > Save configuration

Log out.




Note: For our tutorial purpose, we continue to use the 'garland' theme

Please change back as follows:-

Login username 'eve' and password

Select > Administer > Site building > Themes > [garland] > [Default] check > Save configuration

Log out.