Theme Installation

Overview

Ultimate Auction Theme is one of the most loved, most popular, and highly rated themes for Auction. It’s packed with user-friendly features, and beautiful designs and it is deeply integrated with commonly used third-party services like WooCommerce, WPML, Advance custom fields pro, and other popular plugins.

Preparing to install

What is required?

1. Ultimate Auction Theme Download
2. Theme License info
3. Hosting Requirement
4. Wordperss Installed.

Back up your work

• Backup WordPress database. 
• Backup custom post types. 
• Backup theme files if you have added any modifications or custom functions.
• Backup widgets.
  

Please review the below video for installing the theme. This video will cover how to install and activate the theme on a WordPress site.

Theme Install

Installation via Dashboard

Step 1 – To install a theme from WordPress dashboard navigate to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes and click on the “Add New” option on the top.

Step 2 – In the next step click on the “Upload Theme” option.

Step 3 – Browse the downloaded theme file and install.

Step 4 – Once the file has uploaded, click the Activate link.

Step 5 – Once activated, you will be redirected to the Welcome Screen. You’ll see a prompt to install the required plugins and register Ultimate Auction Theme Pro.

Installation Via FTP

• Step 1 –  Log into your server installation via FTP. You can use software such as Filezilla for this.
• Step 2 –  Locate the WordPress installation folder and browse to wp-content/themes.
• Step 3 –  Using the FTP client, upload the extracted ultimate-auction-theme-pro folder to the wp-content > themes folder on your server. Make sure the folder name is unchanged, so it’s called ‘ultimate-auction-theme-pro’. This will take a few minutes, depending on your connection speed and your server.
• Step 4 –  Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to Appearance > Themes and clicking the ‘Activate’ button, for the Ultimate Auction Theme Pro theme.
• Step 5 –  Once activated, you will be redirected to the Welcome Screen. You’ll see a prompt to install the required plugins and register Ultimate Auction Theme Pro.
  
  

Install via cPanel

Uploading the theme files using the File Manager in your hosting account is very easy. In most cases it will be similar to the below steps. However, depending on your hosting plan the steps may differ but it’s easy to find out how to use the File Manager by searching the hosting company knowledge base.

• Step 1 –  Login to your hosting account and access the File Manager ( In most cases it’s found under Quick Links or the Files section).
• Step 2 – Open File Manager and browse to the wordpress folder usually the wordpress files are installed in the root directory of your site.
• Step 3 – Uploaded the latest version of the theme files to wp-content/themes/ultimate-auction-theme-pro (some hosting companies may not support uploading zip files and extraction using the File Manager tool).
• Step 4 –  Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to Appearance > Themes and clicking the ‘Activate’ button, for the Ultimate Auction Theme Pro theme.
• Step 5 – Once activated, you will be redirected to the Welcome Screen. You’ll see a prompt to install the required plugins and register Ultimate Auction Theme Pro.