1. Installation

Installing wordpress

If you hosting provides a software like Installatron or Softaculous, you have only to login into your cPanel and select the WordPress software from the Installatron (or Scriptaculous) softwares list.

scriptaculous

If you need to install wordpress manually, there is an official WordPress guide to go through the process.

Go to the WordPress manual installation guide

Installing the theme

You can install the theme in 2 ways:

  1. Manually via FTP
  2. Dashboard, using the WordPress theme installer (easyest)

Before proceeding with the installation, put any widget into the “unused widget” section to preserve their settings, and deactivate any plugin. before reactivating your plugins or installing new ones, complete the theme installation and configuration, to be sure that none of your plugins are creating errors.

Unfortunately many of the free repository plugins contains errors, and they can cause crashes in every theme, so before opening support tickets for theme issues please try deactivating any plugin.

Fast Theme installation:

  1. in Appearance -> Themes -> Add New -> Upload
    upload the themes “SLAM-child” and “SLAM“.
  2. Activate SLAM Child (in this way further customizations will be preserved)
  3. Click “Begin installing plugins”
  4. Select all the plugins
  5. Click Bulk Action and select “Install”

Demo Contents Installation

This procedure will make the site like in the demo

  1. Go in Appearance -> Installer Panel
  2. Click Begin Installation (Black button)
  3. WAIT until you see “Content Installed Successfully !”” (UP TO 20 MINUTES DEPENDING ON THE SERVER)
  4. When finished, go in Revolution Slider
  5. Click “Import Slider” (Green button)
  6. Go in the product folder from Themeforest, open the BONUS folder and select RevolutionSliderHome.zip
  7. Click Import Slider
  8. Go in http://qantumthemes.com/activation/ and generate your Activation Key to unlock special features. NOTE TO GENERATE THE KEY: The Envato username is case sensitive. CAPCHA: Three plus two equal: 5
  9. Use your purchase code and activation key in the QantumPanel
  10. Please read the manual

Manual theme installation

  1. Download the zipped theme folder and extract it in your local pc
  2. Be sure to unzip the correct theme folder, which is the once containing the style.css and index.php files. Be sure that you are not uploading the “product” folder. If the folder that you are going tu upload contains some zipped files, it is not the correct one. The contained .zip archive is the theme that you need to upload.
  3. Connect to your hosting using an FTP client (e.g. Filezilla is one of the best free FTP clients, you can get it here)
  4. Navigate to your WordPress installation folder (usually is not the root folder but it should be public_html, www or something else, depending on your hosting provider settings).To be sure that you are in the WordPress folder, you must see 3 folders inside:
    – wp-content
    – wp-admin
    – wp-includes
  5. Navigate into wp-content/themes
  6. Upload SLAM and SLAM_child
  7. Activate SLAM_child
  8. Activate the required plugins
  9. Go in Appearance -> Installer Panel
  10. Click Begin Installation (Black button)
  11. WAIT until you see “Content Installed Successfully !”” (UP TO 20 MINUTES DEPENDING ON THE SERVER)
  12. When finished, go in Revolution Slider
  13. Click “Import Slider” (Green button)
  14. Go in the product folder from Themeforest, open the BONUS folder and select RevolutionSliderHome.zip
  15. Click Import Slider
  16. Go to http://qantumthemes.com/activation/ and generate your Activation Key to unlock special features.
  17. NOTE TO GENERATE THE KEY: The Envato username is case sensitive. CAPCHA: Three plus two equal: 5
  18. Use your purchase code and activation key in the QantumPanel
  19. Please read the manual

NOTE: If installing the theme with the automatic installer you get an error message “Are You Sure You Want To Do This?” it means that your server configuration doesn’t allow the upload of the file because of its size. In this case, is better to upload the theme via FTP.