Open Installation
Multipurpose Business & Corporate WordPress Theme
Installation
Installation of Open WordPress Theme is similar to the installation of any other WordPress Theme. After purchasing Open WordPress Theme you will get a zip file named Open_WP_ThemeForest_Pack v 1.0.0 and after extracting that zip file, you will get the main Theme zip file inside it named “open-wp.zip“. Upload it using WordPess’s theme uploader and activate it. Depending on your settings, you can immediately see the Welcome blog page or landing page.
Have a look on the installation steps as screen shot
Go to Deshboard and then, click to Themes from Appearance.
Then Click to Add New
Then Click to Upload Theme
Then you will get following page, Browse Open.zip and then click to Install Now
If everything is okay, it will finish the installation and now you have to activate the theme.
You need to perform the following tasks to enable Landing/Home page.
Post Installation Task
After installing and activating Open, you need to perform the following tasks to enable landing page. otherwise it will show the blog page by default.
- Go to WordPress Admin Panel’s Settings Menu, click on Permalink and pickup one (we suggest that you pick up “Postname”) and click on Save
- Create a New Page with title Blog and keep the content field blank. You do not need to select any page template, just Publish it. This page will be used to view blog posts.
- Create another New Page with title Home, keep the content field blank and select Home Page form the Template of Page Attributes section on the left side.
- Now go to Settings menu again and then click on Reading. Click on “A Static Page (Select Below)”. Then choose Home as Front Page and Blog as Posts Page. And the rest is as you like and then click to Save Changes. Now the Home page will be the sites Front Page and Blog page will the page for Posts.
