How To Customize The Look of Your WordPress.com Blog

Fresh after the initial setup, your WP blog will look like this:

I agree, it looks rather bland so to make it more interesting to look at, you’ll need to do some customization.

Changing The Theme

The layout above is the default and you’re given plenty of choices to pick from.

First, click “My Dashboard” on top of the page.

Next, click “Appearance” on the sidebar.

You can “preview” or “activate” the theme you like.

Your blog will now have a new look. In my example I choose a theme that looks like this:

See, changing the outlook is so very simple! So have you picked your favorite theme?

Now, depending on which theme you chose, you may see one or two sidebars or none at all. Example above has left and right sidebars. Some themes with 2 sidebars may also have them both on the left or the right side.

Sidebars are typically the place you place “widgets” which you can manipulate to show things you preferred.

The middle portion will be for the display of your blog posts and pages.

Widgets, posts and pages will be discussed in another post.