{"id":6002,"date":"2016-06-13T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qantumthemes.xyz\/manuals\/fluid\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=6002"},"modified":"2019-05-22T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T10:31:21","slug":"3-3-theme-installation","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/knowledge-base\/3-3-theme-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"3.03 Theme Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, please be sure your<a href=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/knowledge-base\/requirements\/\"> server meets the system requirements<\/a> and that your <a href=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/knowledge-base\/getting-started\/\">WordPress installation<\/a> is correctly performed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"qt-highlight\"><strong>IMPORTANT NOTE BEFORE INSTALLING THE THEME:<\/strong><br \/>\nWe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>strongly<\/strong><\/span> recommend <strong>to follow this guide<\/strong> in order to ensure the correct functionality.<br \/>\n<strong>90%<\/strong> of our support requests comes from <strong>a wrong installation process<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong>This procedure will guide you to the activation of the Firwl Child Theme, which allows a much faster and easier customization, maintenance and update process of your website.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>You can install your new\u00a0theme in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From the admin dashboard, using the WordPress theme installer (easiest method).<\/li>\n<li>or manually via FTP<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please make\u00a0sure that you start from a fresh WordPress installation, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>without any plugin(s).<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"automatic-theme-installation-from-wp-admin\" >Automatic theme installation from wp-admin<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Login to your website in\u00a0<strong>\/wp-admin<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Go to\u00a0<strong>Appearance &gt; Themes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Install Themes<\/strong>\u00a0and then\u00a0<strong>Upload<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click on the\u00a0<strong>\u201cBrowse\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0button and select the zipped folder of the theme from your computer.<\/li>\n<li>Upload the theme called <strong>firwl.zip but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">DO NOT ACTIVATE IT<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Once done click on <strong>\u201cReturn to themes\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;add new&#8221; and upload\u00a0the theme <strong>firwl-child.zip<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Activate<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<strong>firwl<\/strong>-child.zip<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Install the required plugins (<a href=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/knowledge-base\/required-plugins-installation\/\">next manual chapter<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 id=\"troubleshooting\" >Troubleshooting:<\/h3>\n<h4 id=\"error-the-theme-is-missing-the-style-css-stylesheet\" ><strong>Error: The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>If you see this error, it means that<strong> you are trying to upload the entire product package instead of the simple theme zip file<\/strong>. Please <strong>unzip<\/strong> the product folder in your computer and <strong>upload only the theme zip file<\/strong> and the child theme&#8217;s zip file.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"error-are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this\" ><strong>Error: Are you sure you want to do this?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Please check <a href=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/knowledge-base\/requirements\/\">system requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"manual-theme-installation-ftp-installation\" >Manual theme installation (FTP installation)<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the\u00a0<strong>product<\/strong> <strong>zip<\/strong> from Themeforest (not the full product) and <strong>expand it on your computer<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Locate the correct <strong>theme<\/strong> <strong>folder<\/strong> <strong>inside of the unzipped folder<\/strong>, it will contain firwl-child.zip and firwl.zip<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make\u00a0sure you unzip the correct theme folders (firwl.zip and firwl-child.zip). This will produce 2 folders: firwl and firwl-child<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Connect to your hosting provider using an <strong>FTP<\/strong> client (e.g. Filezilla is one of the best free FTP clients, you can get it\u00a0<a title=\"Filezilla download\" href=\"https:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/download.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to your WordPress installation folder (usually is not the root folder but it should be <strong>public_html<\/strong>, <strong>www<\/strong> or something else, depending on your hosting provider settings).To be sure that you are in the WordPress folder, you should\u00a0see the following three folders inside:<br \/>\n\u2013 wp-content<br \/>\n\u2013 wp-admin<br \/>\n\u2013 wp-includes<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <strong>wp-content\/themes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Upload the two previously unzipped theme folders (firwl and firwl-child,\u00a0<em>see step 2. above<\/em>) in\u00a0<strong>wp-content\/themes\u00a0<\/strong>folder.<\/li>\n<li>Now open your browser (we recommend Google Chrome), navigate to the admin dashboard of your wordpress site (usually yoursite.com<strong>\/wp-admin<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Go to\u00a0<strong>Appearance-&gt; themes<\/strong> and activate: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Firwl Child<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Install the required plugins (<a href=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/knowledge-base\/required-plugins-installation\/\">next manual chapter<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you encounter any activation problem please check the system requirements, your WordPress version and disable any plugin you may have in your website.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"wrong-theme-installation\" >Wrong theme installation<\/h3>\n<p>Do <strong>NOT<\/strong> upload the zipped file via FTP\/CPANEL and unzip the theme folder on the server manually, as this usually leads to wrong file permissions on files and folders, and cause problems as missing fonts and unaccessible template parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht_kb_category":[498],"ht_kb_tag":[520,518,521,516,517,519],"class_list":["post-6002","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-installation","ht_kb_tag-css","ht_kb_tag-files","ht_kb_tag-missing","ht_kb_tag-theme-installation","ht_kb_tag-upload","ht_kb_tag-zip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/6002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/6002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/6002\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/firwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}