1. Install plugins
In order to use the theme, you should install and activate all required plugins such as ArrowTheme Core, Redux Framework. All other plugins which recommended, it ups to you whether to use it or not. For example, if you don’t want to use Shop features, you can deactivate and delete all WooCommerce plugins.
1. First method
Install plugins via installing plugins message.After installing and activating the theme you will see the message about installing required plugins at the top of the page.
You should click Begin installing plugins link or go to Appearance > Install Plugins in order to install needed plugins for Aki theme.
You will be redirected to Install Required Plugins page, here you will find all of the theme required plugins. In order to install these plugins, you just need to check all of them and select install then click apply. It will need to take a while to install plugins successfully.
When the installation process is done, you can click Return to Required Plugins Installer and select active then check all plugins to active these plugins.
2. Second method
Install plugins via WordPress Admin Panel.
Besides, you can install some plugins which available in wordpress.org by navigating Plugins > Add New in admin sidebar. You should enter plugin name to search plugin and click “Install Now” to install the plugin you want. After that, click “Active” button to start using that plugin.
3. Third method
Install plugins manually (Via FTP)
If you want to manually install plugins, you can follow some basic steps below.
- Download your WordPress Plugin to your desktop and extract plugin folder if it is a zip archive.
- With your FTP program, upload the Plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.
- Go to Appearance > Plugins and find the newly uploaded Plugin in the list.
- Click Activate to activate it.
After finishing plugin install, you need to configure the plugins.
2. Plugin Configuration
Some plugins will need to config setting to use.
Note: The license of some premium plugins such as Visual Composer, Ultimate Addon can’t active in each site. You can update the latest version of it via our theme. Because we bought these plugins with the extended version. Please see Update section.
1. Visual Composer
You can see here for more details.
– After installing the Visual Composer, please go to Visual Composer > Role Manager. In the post types field, you should select Custom and check all post type as the screenshot below.
2. Ultimate Addon
* Google Map
For google map shortcode work effectively, you should go to Ultimate > Google Maps and input Google Map API key.
Note: If you want to add google fonts or icons to use in some Ultimate Addon shortcodes, you can follow some steps below to do it.
* Google Fonts
If you want to use different google font in some Ultimate Addon shortcodes, you can go to Ultimate > Google Fonts. Click to Just a click button
– After that, you can select the font you want and click “Add to Collection” button
* Icon Manager
In order to add new icons to Ultmate Icon Manager, you can follow some steps below.
- Download aki icon font zip file
- Go to Ultimate > Icon Manager
- Click Upload New Icons
- Select font icon zip file you downloaded in step 1 and click Insert Fonts Zip File
– Please see detail guide of Ultimate author. Icon Manager Guide
3. ArrowTheme Instagram Feed
Navigate to Settings > Instagram Settings to access “Instagram Settings” page. You need to enter Access token and User ID of your instagram account in order to get images. Remeber to click Save Changes to save information.
You can find user ID in this link
You can get access token via this website
4. ArrowTheme Latest Tweets
Navigate to Settings > ArrowTheme Latest Tweets to access “Twitter API Authentication Settings” page. You need to enter Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access token and Access Secret and twitter username in order to get posts from your twitter account.
In order to get Twitter Access keys, you need to create Twitter Application:
- Go to https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new and log in, if necessary.
- Supply the necessary required fields, accept the Terms Of Service, and solve the CAPTCHA. Submit the form by clicking the Create your Twitter Application.
- Go to the API Keys tab and copy the consumer key (API key) and consumer secret from the screen into our application.
5. MailChimp for WP
Go to MailChimp for WP > MailChimp to access general setting page of MailChimp. You should connect to your MailChimp account by entering API Key.
After that, navigate to MailChimp for WP > Forms and create a form with the content in this link MailChimp Form content
If a MailChimp form is already existed, you can do nothing or change the form content and click Save changes to display the form in the front end.
For detail instruction, please click MailChimp for WP.
6. Contact Form
Go to Contact > Form and create the form you want or edit existing form.
When you want to add a form which displays the same as in our demo site, you should change the content of the contact form in Contact > Form so the form can have a similar style. After changing form content, you can adjust the text or the field to what you want.
You will find form content we used in our demo site in this link. Each form can have different style based in the content in the contact form. If you imported demo content successfully, you can skip this step.
After that, you need to set up Mail tab. Please see this guide for more detail. Mail setting
7. Woocommerce
WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugin. Packed full of features, perfectly integrated into your self-hosted WordPress website.
You can see here for more details and woocommerce documentation.
– Change Image Sizes
You can change the product image sizes in Woocommerce > Settings > Products > Display > Product Images on admin sidebar.
After changing the image sizes, you should regenerate all the thumbnails using Regenerate Thumbnails plugins.
Please go Tools > Regen.Thumbnails and click Regenerate All Thumbnails.
– Enable register in My Account page
Navigate to Woocommerce > Settings > Accounts, check the box Enable registration on the “My Account” page
8. Regenerate Thumbnails
Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments. This is very handy if you’ve changed any of your thumbnail dimensions (via Settings -> Media) after previously uploading images or have changed to a theme with different featured post image dimensions.
You can either regenerate the thumbnails for all image uploads, individual image uploads, or specific multiple image uploads.
You can see here for more details.
Please go Tools > Regen.Thumbnails and click Regenerate All Thumbnails.
9. Simple Membership
Below is basic setup to use plugin with our theme. For detail documentation, please read Simple Membership plugin documentation
Please read Membership basic setup and configuration
– Plugin basic setting:
- Go to WP Membership > Settings
- The plugin automatically creates the required pages when you install it. So just make sure that the following pages were created in your install and the URL of those pages are saved in the settings. For the Join Us page, if you want to use Membership page like our demo, the Join Us URL field will be our Membership page link. This page will be imported when importing demo content.
– Create Membership Levels
- Go to WP Membership > Membership Levels > Add Level
- Enter and select all needed information for a level.
– Create Payment button
- Go to WP Membership > Payments > Create New Button.
- Select payment type and config the payment button.
- Click Save Payment data.
– Membership page
- Go to WP Membership > Payments > Manage Payment Buttons.
- Copy Button shortcode in the last column of the payment button table. If you don’t see Button Shortcode column, you should install and activate Simple Membership Form Shortcode plugin.
- Go to Pages > Edit “Membership” page.
- Edit Price Box shortcode and paste the button shortcode to the “Features” field.
5. Click Save Changes
Once Required Plugins are configured, you may be interested in installing sample content as our demo sites. In the next section, we will guide you about demo installation.