October.03.2013

Quickstart installation is the best way that helps you build a new WordPress Theme as our Demo with sample data. In this article, we will introduce step by step to install a quickstart package from SmartAddons store into localhost.

With WordPress themes from Smartaddons, we provide 3 packages for your installation. They're: Theme package only, Plugin packages and quickstart package. You can find all of them in your download area by going to Menu WordPress > Download. All packages will appear as bellow:

Step 1: Extract Quickstart package to your folder < htdocs < xampp if you're using localhost. Or upload all files after extracting as this image if you're using a hosting server.

Step 2: Move the directory content into your browsers and start installation. The initial Wordpress installation screen will notify you that the configuration file is unavailable. Click Create Configuration File button to create it.

Step 3: You need to setup data base if you haven't got. You can refer the guide how to create a new database and new username for WordPress. Then Let's Go!

Step 4: Input the Wordpress database connection details. With using localhost, you can type the username and password as bellow:

Step 5: Run the installation and edit needed information as following:

Step 6: Complete installation

Step 7: Log in your account and discover the new theme