{"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":"2023-07-21T13:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:14:05","slug":"theme-installation","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/knowledge-base\/theme-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Theme Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>select\u00a0<strong>wpcasterpro.zip and activate it<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>You will now see a <strong>notification<\/strong> about required <strong>plugins<\/strong>, make sure to <strong>activate<\/strong> them<\/li>\n<li>If a<strong> purchase code is required<\/strong>, you can find it from your <strong>Envato downloads<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/knowledge-base\/required-plugins-installation\/\">more info<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Click Appearance &gt; <strong>Import Demo Data<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click<strong> Import Demo Data<\/strong> and wait a couple of minutes, the time depends on your server speed. Can take up to 5 minutes.<strong> In case of any 40X error, repeat the procedure. It will import the contents in chunks. Repeat until a success message appears.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLYmzFop3QeBmV3JfHhsnzKEY8JV9cIpi0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"first-steps-after-the-first-installation\" >First steps after the first installation<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IkVtUNeldPU?list=PLYmzFop3QeBmV3JfHhsnzKEY8JV9cIpi0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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\/wpcasterpro\/knowledge-base\/requirements\/\">system requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"alternative-ftp-installation-procedure\" >Alternative FTP installation procedure<\/h2>\n<p><strong>We do NOT recommend this method<\/strong> unless you have any limitation using the standard procedure. The FTP upload can lead to wrong files and folders permissions, resulting in missing stylings and files in your website.<\/p>\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 wpcast-child.zip and wpcast.zip<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make\u00a0sure you unzip the correct theme folders (wpcasterpro.zip andwpcasterpro-child.zip). This will produce 2 folders: wpcast and wpcast-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 (<strong>wpcasterpro<\/strong> and<strong>wpcasterpro<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>child<\/strong>,\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:\u00a0<strong>WpCasterPro<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00a0Child<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Install the required plugins (<a href=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/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<h2 id=\"_\" ><\/h2>\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\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/6002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/6002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8190,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/6002\/revisions\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}