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The Themes tab at the top of WP Toolkit is the multi-site theme manager. Same shape as the Plugins tab, just for themes. Open it from cPanel home → Domains → WordPress Management → Themes.
WP Toolkit Themes tab with the multi-site theme list

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What’s in the list

Each row is one theme, with:
  • A thumbnail (from the theme’s screenshot.png).
  • The theme name and version.
  • An update badge if a newer version is available.
  • The count of sites using it, with the active site count separately. WordPress only runs one theme at a time per site, so the active count is at most one per site.
  • An expand toggle that lists every site the theme is installed on.
Toolbar buttons match the Plugins tab: Install, Upload, Update, Activate, Deactivate, Remove.

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Install a theme on multiple sites

1

Click Install

Theme search opens against the WordPress.org repository.
2

Pick a theme

Click Install on the card. A preview thumbnail and the author name help you confirm the right one.
3

Pick target sites

Same multi-site checklist as plugins. Tick the sites where the theme should land.
4

Decide whether to activate

Active sets it as the running theme. Off installs the theme without switching the site over.
Activating a theme on a live site changes the appearance immediately. If you’re switching themes for real, do it on a cloned staging site first and test before pushing back.
5

Run

Per-site results at the end.

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Upload a paid or custom theme

The Upload button accepts a .zip. Same constraints as plugin uploads (PHP upload_max_filesize). Updates for paid themes usually need a license key inside WordPress admin.

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Update themes

The Update button on the toolbar applies every available theme update across every site that has it. For one theme on selected sites, expand the row and pick.

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Active vs. installed

A site can have many themes installed but only one active. Themes you’ve stopped using sit on disk taking space and, occasionally, attracting attention from vulnerability scanners. Clean them up with Remove on the rows you no longer need. The default WordPress themes (Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Three, etc.) are useful as fallbacks: if your active theme breaks, WordPress falls back to one of these. Keep at least one default installed.

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Common issues

Themes register custom widgets, sidebars, menus, and Customizer settings. Switching to a different theme drops those bindings. Switch back to the previous theme to recover, or restore from a backup taken before the switch.
Child themes inherit from parents. If the parent changed a function the child overrode, you’ll see PHP errors. Roll back the parent (restore from backup) and reach out to the child theme’s maintainer.
Run Scan from the Installations tab. WP Toolkit re-reads each site’s wp-content/themes and refreshes the list.

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