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Although my hosts and WordPress itself has some pretty good themes included, it is nice to add more.

You can get more here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

There is the easy way to install the themes, i.e. just download the theme file, unzip on your computer, then upload the extracted folder and files to the wp-content\themes folder on your host.

But then there is also the smart and so much easier way of doing it:

• Find the theme that you want and copy the URL to the theme download. For Pixeled the currently most popular theme, that URL is http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/pixeled.1.9.1.zip
• SSH to your host
• Navigate to the folder WP-Content\Themes
• Use the commend wget <URL> && unzip <DOWNLOADED_FILE> && rm <DOWNLOADED_FILE>. For Pixeled that command “wget would be http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/pixeled.1.9.1.zip && unzip pixeled.1.9.1.zip && rm pixeled.1.9.1.zip”
• Now hit enter, it will download the theme, unzip it and delete the file all in one command.

Once this is done, log in to your WordPress admin, go to Appearances, select Themes and your new theme will be there.