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title: "How to Switch Your cPanel Theme to Paper Lantern"
description: "Due to cPanel phasing out the older x3 theme interface, we are encouraging users to change to the Paper Lantern theme. In this tutorial, we will show you how to switch your cPanel theme to from x3 to..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/cpanel/switch-your-cpanel-theme-to-paper-lantern/
date: 2015-07-21
modified: 2022-02-23
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["cPanel"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to Switch Your cPanel Theme to Paper Lantern

Due to cPanel phasing out the older *x3* theme interface, we are encouraging users to **change to the *Paper Lantern* theme**. In this tutorial, we will show you how to switch your cPanel theme to from **x3** to **Paper Lantern**.

![Change your theme from x3 to Paper Lantern in cPanel](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/mkh_3eI-nMY/maxresdefault.webp)

*Don’t have time to read our full article? Watch our walk-through video.*

## Switching to Paper Lantern

1. [Login to cPanel](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/cpanel/how-to-log-into-cpanel/).
2. You will see a *Switch Theme* option on the top of the page. Click the drop-downbox to list your theme options.[![Change cPanel Theme](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cpanel_paper-lantern_switch-theme-cpanel.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cpanel_paper-lantern_switch-theme-cpanel.png) Click the **paper_lantern** option.[![Select paper_lantern cPanel Style](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cpanel_paper-lantern_selecting-paper-lantern.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cpanel_paper-lantern_selecting-paper-lantern.png) You will then see your cPanel theme displayed as *paper_lantern*.[![Example of Paper Lantern cPanel](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/paper-lantern_overview2.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/paper-lantern_overview2.png) Congratulations, now you know how to change your cPanel theme from the older **x3** theme to latest version of **Paper Lantern**! We also have a helpful guide on [How to Change your sub-users to PaperLantern via WHM.](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/whm/change-theme-whm/)