What is a WordPress Theme?

 Do you want to know what a WordPress theme is? Many people may know what WordPress is but they don’t have much knowledge of a WordPress theme and its importance.

In simple terms, WordPress themes are the design layouts that define the overall outlook of your site. They control the visual aspect of your site, its appearance, as well as how your content appears online.

We’ll detailly explain what a WordPress theme is, its importance, some popular themes, and also how you can install a WordPress theme. So let’s get started.

1. What is a WordPress Theme? (Overview)

A WordPress theme is a design layout that is used for styling all the front-end parts of your WordPress site. Generally, it decides how your website will look visually and how your content will be displayed to your visitors. 

When you change your theme, you also change the front-end of your website i:e the content of your website will be displayed according to your new theme. 

For example, see this page or the overall ThemeGrill blog page, you can see a unique styling of how our text content and images appear. Also, the styling of headings, list items, the spacing between paragraphs, and everything visual style unique. It’s all provided by the Zakra theme that we’ve used for this blog.

A WordPress theme is composed of mainly two files:

index.php – The main template file, which your visitors see when they visit your site and 

style.css – The main style file, which is used to style the content of the index file. 

The good news about WordPress themes is that you can easily change new themes and also customize your site design.

To add/install a new theme, you can go to WordPress.org theme directory where you can find more than thousands of free themes. Also paid WordPress themes are available on marketplaces like ThemeForest and theme author websites like our site ThemeGrill.