{"id":1064,"date":"2021-05-26T06:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/documentation\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2021-11-12T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T13:10:36","slug":"installation-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/documentation\/2021\/05\/26\/installation-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This documentation will help you get started on your PandaStore installation and updates. You will also learn how to download and install\/update the theme correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firstly, let\u2019s begin with downloading PandaStore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"mt-7 mb-3 wp-block-heading\">1. Download the theme<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can download our PandaStore theme from <a href=\"https:\/\/themeforest.net\">Themeforest<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to download PandaStore theme from <a href=\"https:\/\/themeforest.net\">Themeforest<\/a>, you need to login your Themeforest account and go to your download page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you download PandaStore, you have 2 options, one is  <span class=\"has-inline-color has-primary-color\"><code class=\"code-grey\">All Files &amp; Documentation<\/code><\/span>  and another one is <span class=\"has-inline-color has-primary-color\"><code class=\"code-grey\">Installable WordPress File Only<\/code><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former includes all of the theme files and documents, while the latter only includes installable WordPress file.  If you want to install or update theme manually, we recommend you the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Login to your Themeforest account and navigate to the &#8216;Download&#8217; section<\/li><li>Locate the theme that you purchased in your Downloads list and click on the <strong>Download<\/strong> button<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"mt-7 mb-3 wp-block-heading\">2. Install the theme<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"sub-heading wp-block-list\"><li>WordPress Theme Manager<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Go to  <code class=\"code-grey\">WP Admin &gt; Appearance &gt; Themes &gt; Add New<\/code>. Select the zipped theme file called panda.zip and press <code class=\"code-grey\">Install Now<\/code>. WordPress will do the rest job for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"sub-heading wp-block-list\"><li>FTP Upload<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  Go to  <code class=\"code-grey\">FTP &gt; wp-content &gt; themes<\/code>.  Unzip the panda.zip package and upload the theme folder into your themes folder. After you do that, you will also have to go to  <code class=\"code-grey\">Appearance &gt; Themes<\/code>  and activate the theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"mt-7 mb-3 wp-block-heading\">3. Related Plugins<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"sub-heading mt-6 wp-block-list\"><li>Required Plugins<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p><code><strong class=\"text-dark\">PandaStore Core<\/strong> <\/code>&#8211; Plugin accompanyed with PandaStore theme. This plugin contains functionality to serve PandaStore theme that do not otherwise belong into the theme according to Envato&#8217;s theme and plugin requirements. These include things like widgets, shortcodes, woocommerce compatibility, etc. Whenever PandaStore theme is updated, PandaStore Core is also updated.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><code><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en-ca.wordpress.org\/plugins\/elementor\/\">Elementor<\/a><\/strong><\/code><\/span> &#8211; Elementor is the World&#8217;s Leading WordPress Page Builder. It was built for designers, developers, marketers, and entrepreneurs. Create stunning landing pages, design a blog, customize your online store \u2013 everything is within reach! Enjoy Over 30+ PandaStore Elements and features.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><strong><code><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/kirki\/\">Kirki<\/a><\/code><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 PandaStore theme options is built using Kirki plugin. So in order to use PandaStore&#8217;s theme options, you should install and activate Kirki plugin.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><strong><code><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/woocommerce\/\">WooCommerce<\/a><\/code><\/strong><\/span> &#8211; Open-source eCommerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-scaled online merchants using WordPress. This plugin is required for shop demos like <a href=\"https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/demo9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Organic Farm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/demo7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wine<\/a> and etc that were built with it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><code><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/meta-box\/\">Meta Box<\/a><\/strong><\/code><\/span> &#8211; Plugin for creating meta boxes for posts, pages,\u2026 It is free and available on WordPress.org<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><strong><code><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/yith-woocommerce-wishlist\/\">Yith WooCommerce Wishlist<\/a><\/code><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Enables PandaStore Wishlist feature.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"sub-heading mt-6 wp-block-list\"><li>Recommended Plugins<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><strong><code><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedcustomfields.com\/\">Advanced Custom Fields<\/a><\/code><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 One of popular plugins to customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><strong><code><a href=\"https:\/\/tri.be\/\">The Events Calendar<\/a><\/code><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 One of the world\u2019s most popular events plugins. It has a huge range of features and PandaStore is fully compatible with this.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><strong><code><a href=\"http:\/\/thimpress.com\/learnpress\">LearnPress<\/a><\/code><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 WordPress complete solution for creating a Learning Management System (LMS). It can help you to create courses, lessons and quizzes.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><strong><code><a href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\">WPML<\/a><\/code><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Makes it easy to build multilingual sites and run them.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><strong><code><a href=\"https:\/\/wpforms.com\/\">WPForms Lite<\/a><\/code><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Drag &amp; Drop form builder to create your WordPress forms.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color plugin-nav\"><strong><code><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/pwa-for-wp\/\">PWA<\/a><\/code><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Stands for Progressive Web App.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"mt-8 mb-3 wp-block-heading\">5. Install Plugins<\/h5>\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Click on the&nbsp; <code class=\"code-grey\">Begin activating plugins<\/code><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong> links on the top of the page.<\/li>\n<li class=\"d-none\"><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/11\/install_plugins-1024x497.jpg\" alt=\"Install Plugins\" class=\"wp-image-2784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/11\/install_plugins-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/11\/install_plugins-768x372.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Click begin installing plugins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<ol>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <code class=\"code-grey\">Appearance &gt; Install Plugins<\/code>, select all plugins and activate theme.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/11\/install_plugins2-1024x486.jpg\" alt=\"Activate Plugins\" class=\"wp-image-2786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/11\/install_plugins2-1024x486.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/11\/install_plugins2-768x364.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Bulk activate plugins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"mt-7 mb-3 wp-block-heading\">6. Update Theme<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are 3 ways to update PandaStore. The first method is <code class=\"code-grey\">PandaStore\u2019s one click update<\/code> and the second method is <code class=\"code-grey\">Manual updates<\/code> and the third is to use <code class=\"code-grey\">Envato Market WordPress Plugin<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-warning alert-light d-block wp-block-paragraph\">Note: <strong>Before Update<\/strong><br>After updating the theme, all of your contents such as pages, options, images and posts will never be lost or erased by doing this. <br>However, any customization to the theme\u2019s core files and language files will be lost. So you need a child theme to customize the theme and backup the language file if you have a translated theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"sub-heading wp-block-list\"><li>Update using One Click Update feature<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We introduced a method to update the theme whenever we release a new version of the theme. Using this feature, you can easily update PandaStore theme whenever a new version is released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under  <code class=\"code-grey\">Appearance &gt; Themes<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/d-themes.com\/wordpress\/panda\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/11\/update_theme-2.jpg\" alt=\"Update Theme\" class=\"wp-image-2908\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"sub-heading wp-block-list\"><li>Manual Update<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to update the theme manually, you need to download theme files from Themeforest. If you are not sure how to download theme files from themeforest, please read our article here. <br>Once you download a new version of the theme, you can choose to use either FTP or WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 14px\" class=\"mt-5 wp-block-heading\">Update using FTP<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Go to  <code class=\"code-grey\">wp-content &gt; themes<\/code>  and backup your PandaStore theme folder. After backing it up, simply delete it.<\/li><li>Unzip  <code class=\"code-grey\">panda.zip<\/code> from the package you downloaded from Themeforest, and get the PandaStore theme folder.<\/li><li>Drag and drop the new PandaStore theme folder into  <code class=\"code-grey\">wp-content &gt; themes<\/code> field.<\/li><li>Don\u2019t forget to update included plugins.<\/li><li>Navigate to <code class=\"code-grey\">Appearance &gt; Themes<\/code>  on WordPress admin and click again  <code class=\"code-grey\">Save Changes<\/code>  button.<\/li><li>Finally, if you have translated the theme, don\u2019t forget to fetch the lang folder from backed-up folder and place it in the same directory as an old lang folder. If not, you will not have a translated theme.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 14px\" class=\"mt-5 wp-block-heading\">Update using WordPress Admin<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Please deactivate current PandaStore theme in <code class=\"code-grey\">Appearance &gt; Themes<\/code>.<\/li><li>After deactivate current PandaStore theme, simply delete the PandaStore theme. Your content will be lost \ud83d\ude42  joking! It will never be lost.<\/li><li>Get  <code class=\"code-grey\">panda.zip<\/code>  file from the package you downloaded from Themeforest and simply upload it. To do it, navigate to  <code class=\"code-grey\">Appearance &gt; Themes<\/code>  and click  <code class=\"code-grey\">Install Themes<\/code>  and upload zip file on it.<\/li><li>After uploading it, in  <code class=\"code-grey\">Appearance &gt; Themes<\/code>, activate PandaStore theme.<\/li><li>Don\u2019t forget upload plugins, too.<\/li><li>Please go to  <code class=\"code-grey\">Appearance &gt; Theme Options<\/code>  in admin area and click  <code class=\"code-grey\">Save Changes<\/code>  again.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"sub-heading wp-block-list\"><li>Update using Envato Market WordPress Plugin<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can update the theme automatically using <code class=\"code-grey\">Envato Market WordPress Plugin<\/code>. Envato Market plugin lets you install WordPress theme and plugins from&nbsp; Themeforest and CodeCanyon using Envato Market API with a secure Auth token. <br>For more information, please read themeforest\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/envato.com\/market-plugin\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"mt-7 mb-3 wp-block-heading\">7. Update Plugins<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"sub-heading wp-block-list\"><li>Update the other plugins<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Updating the other plugins is simple as the other WordPress theme. You can update the other plugins using one click feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please navigate to <code class=\"code-grey\">Updates<\/code>  section in admin area and you will be able to find which plugins can be&nbsp; updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply select them and click  <code class=\"code-grey\">Update Plugins<\/code>  button. That\u2019s all!  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"sub-heading wp-block-list\"><li>Common Issues<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you cannot update those plugins, you should update them manually.<\/p>\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Navigate to&nbsp;<code class=\"code-grey\"> Plugins.<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Select and deactivate those plugins.<\/li>\n<li>Select and delete those plugins.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <code class=\"code-grey\">Appearance &gt; Install Plugins<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Select and install \/ activate those plugins.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This documentation will help you get started on your PandaStore installation and updates. You will also learn how to download and install\/update the theme correctly. Firstly, let\u2019s begin with downloading PandaStore. 1. Download the theme You can download our PandaStore theme from Themeforest. 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