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Selecting and installing downloaded themes - Drupal Tutorial
From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training
Selecting and installing downloaded themes
Up until now you've only seen three different themes, all of them part of Drupal 7's core download, but there are dozens more available for free on Drupal.org. This video will show you how to download and install them as well as how to decide which ones will fit your needs best. The first place for us to go is drupal.org. Once there, click Download & Extend and then click Themes. You can also go there directly by simply typing drupal.org/project/themes in your browser's address bar. The first thing we need to do is make sure we're looking for Drupal 7 themes, Those that are designed for Drupal 6 or any earlier version simply won't work. So we Filter by compatibility as 7 and Search. By default, these are sorted by most installed. That is to say which are the most popular, and we can scroll down through here and see which ones they are. The first batch or actually something called Base Themes, which I'll get to in just a moment. The one that I think that we'll look at is called…
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