Textual Installation Tutorial

In the following tutorial you'll learn how to install TheBigMagazine theme and set up the demo content for the first time.

Theme Installation

When you download the theme from ThemeForest for the first time, all the files and folders inside it will come in the zip format. When you unzip the theme you'll find folder structure similar to this:

Entering to 01_TheBigMagazine_Theme folder will lead you to the place where zipped theme is stored.

This is the zipped file where theme is stored and that file should be uploaded to WordPress directly as it is.

To upload the theme to your WordPress installation, please from wp-admin area go to Appearance -> Themes and click on the _Add New _button.

Appearance -> Themes -> Add New -> Upload Theme.

Once the theme has been uploaded click on Activate.

You have successfully installed and activated the theme, now it is time to import the demo content and start using the theme.

Demo Import

Once you have successfully activated the theme you'll see the prompt to install the required plugins. Without them the theme will not be able to function properly, so please make sure that they are installed.Once you click to begin installing/activating plugins you'll be lead to the page where you can do so. On that page only required plugins will be visible to you.Out of all displayed plugins only One Click Demo Import plugin is used once. When you are done with demo importing you do not have to have it installed/activated anymore and you can freely ignore or Dismiss the notice about it.

As you can see there are two groups of required plugins: Requried & Recommended.

Required plugins - Those plugins are absolutely necessary for normal working of the theme. Without theme you won't be able to use the theme.

Recommended plugins - Those plugins are not necessary for the proper working of the theme but we are providing support for theme but you may not have any need to use them.

Once you activated the plugins please go to Appearance -> Import Demo Data.Make sure that you click on Import Demo Data button only once and wait for the demo content to import. It shouldn't take longer than 2 minutes to finish. Once it is done importing you'll get success notificationYou have successfully set up the demo and are ready to start using the theme.