How To Install Themify Into A New Website

STUDENTS

This guide will show you how to reinstall Themify’s Ultra theme into a subdirectory, which you already have access to. For this class, that means installing Themify into a path like firstnamelastname.me/client or directly into a client’s website folder, not the main domain. Before you do anything else, make sure you have the Ultra theme downloaded on the computer you are currently using. Most of you will already have it, but if you are working on a different computer, you will need to re-download the Ultra theme from your Themify account. The steps below walk you through exactly how to download Ultra so you are ready to install it into the subdirectory.

How To Download The Ultra Theme If You Have Not Already

Click here to access the member’s area once you are signed into Themify

This will take you to the dashboard for your Themify account. We are going to download a template from Themify called “Ultra” and upload it into our WordPress. To download the theme click on “Ultra Theme.” Save this to your computer.

You will now need to log into your client WordPress website.

This is your second WordPress installation, not your resume website. Themify is already installed on your resume site.

For this class, your client website lives in a subdirectory called /client.

To log in, enter your website URL followed by /client/wp-login.php or /client/admin.

Example base URL:
https://arnierobinson.me

Client site login URLs:
https://arnierobinson.me/client/wp-login.php

or
https://arnierobinson.me/client/admin

Important: If you see a message saying the theme is already installed, you are logged into the wrong WordPress website. That means you are still in your resume site.

Logging in will take you to the WordPress login screen for your client site.

Enter your login information that you set up when you loaded your WordPress installation in Namecheap and Click the “Log In” button.

When you click “Log In” you will be redirected to your WordPress Dashboard which will look like this:

We want to install the template which is located under Appearance (See Above).

Once you Click the Themes button look at the top and Click “Add New”

Then Click “Upload Theme” (see below)

Then Select the file you downloaded from Themify which is called:   “Themify-ultra.zip”

Then click “Install Now.”

Doing this will upload your theme to WordPress. After uploading you will get a screen where you need to activate your upload.

You’ll then be asked which skin you want to import. For now you can just import the default skin. Click on Import under the first option as shown in the picture below:

 Once you do that it takes you to the theme options:

Do not worry about these right now. We will import these later. Include all builder images if it asks.

Click “Proceed Import”

 

The next thing we want to do is to learn how to set up the built-in layouts in Themify so we can quickly and easily get a website set up with little to website design experience. But first we need to add a few plugins from Themify to make sure all the functionality of the templates work.

Upload The Builder Contat Plugin Into WordPress:

In Themify find the “Builder Contact” in downloads. It should open up a download box where you can download the file to your computer.

Once downloaded you can upload your plugins in the plugin section of your WordPress dashboard.  In the Dashboard on the left side find the Plugins tab and then select “Add New”

Then at the top you will select Upload Plugin

 

Select the zip file that you just download from Themify (builder-contact.zip) and then click Install Now:

And Don’t Forget to Activate it!