First Step #

• Documentation – That’s where you
• License – Some info about theme licensing terms
• Dummy Content – Placeholder content for testing the theme
• SampleData – Import Data to get the exact Site as the Preview Page
• Upload – This is where all Theme files are (zipped & unzipped format)

What are Parent and Child Themes? #

A WordPress child theme takes the functionality of another theme, named parent theme. It gives you the possibility to customize an existing theme. Instead of modifying the theme files directly, you can activate the child theme and work within it.

All customizations are stored in the child theme and anything in the child takes priority over the parent. So if the same file exists in both child and parent, the file from the child will control that aspect of the theme.

Working with child themes, your customizations are safeguarded from future upgrades because you only upgrade the parent theme, which you never edit, while the customizations are protected in your child theme which you don’t upgrade.

Why use a Child theme? #

Safe Updates. You can easily modify your website using child themes without ever changing the parent theme. When a new version of the parent theme appears, you can safely update it as all your modifications are saved in the child theme. Easy to Extend. A child theme has great flexibility. It does not require writing a lot of code. You can modify only those template files and functions that you need.

When you install one of our Exhibz themes you must upload both Exhibz parent and Exhibz child theme folders to /wp-content/themes/ but you should only activate the Exhibz Child theme via Appearance -> Themes.

Install Theme #

The first option how to install this Theme would be to directly upload the Exhibz.zip file via WordPress Theme Uploader.

Minimal requirements:

• PHP 7+
• Php.ini settings:
• max_execution_time = 600
• upload_max_filesize = 32M
• post_max_size = 48M
• memory_limit = 512M
• max_input_time = 300
• max_input_vars = 10000
• MySQL 5.0+
• WordPress 5+

Please make sure you have the proper version of WordPress installed.

Log Into WordPress and go to Appearance > Themes

Find the Exhibz Theme and click activate

FTP Upload:

• Unzip the “Exhibz.zip” file from the theme folder
• Open up your FTP manager and connect to your hosting
• Browse to wp-content/themes
• Upload the Exhibz in the theme folder
• Log Into WordPress and go to Appearance > Themes
• Find the Exhibz Theme and click activate

WordPress Dashboard:

• Log into your WordPress backend
• Navigate to Appearance > Themes
• Click Install Themes
• Click Upload
• Now you just need to find the “Exhibz.zip” in the Upload folder and hit Install now.
• After complete installation clicks on the active button to activate The theme.

Install Required Plugins #

Note: Due to certain plugins being unavailable in the WordPress repository, we have initiated the download process from our hosted source. Our team is actively working on replacing the dependent plugins and substituting Unyson with the CodeStar framework, and we aim to update our theme as soon as possible.

After activating the Exhibz theme you will see the below window. and install all required plugins.

One-click Demo Content Install #

!!! Don’t install One-click Demo content if you have an existing Site, Use Manual Demo Data XML Import.

It will take some time to install full demo data like the demo site.

You are done! 🙂

Video of Installation and Overview of Exhibz #

Theme Update #

Get notified and update the theme automatically #

Once you have installed one of our themes, there is an easy way to stay updated with future releases. All you need is to install the Envato Market plugin.

Step 1: Download the plugin from the GitHub repository.

Step 2: Install this plugin into your site. It’s an easy way to install plugin.

Step 3: To establish an Envato Marketplace API connection navigate to the Envato Toolkit page and insert your Marketplace username and secret API key in the designated input fields. To obtain your API Key, visit your “My Settings” page on any of the Envato Marketplaces.

Step 4: Once the API connection has been established you will see a list of themes that can be auto-installed.

How to update the WordPress theme Manually #

Please, follow the doc for better understand : Update Theme manually.