Installing & Updating Arnold theme via WordPress

Before installing Arnold WordPress theme, you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information about installing the WordPress platform, please refer to the WordPress Codex here. There are two ways you can install Arnold WordPress theme. You can choose to install it via WordPress, which is what will be outlined in this article, or alternatively, you can install Arnold via FTP. Before you can install Arnold theme, you need to download the necessary files from the ThemeForest account Arnold theme was purchased from. Continue reading below for more information, and watch the video for a visual overview.

Downloading The Installation Files From ThemeForest

The first thing to do is to download the installation files from ThemeForest. There are two packages available, as you can see in the screenshot below – All files and documentation, and the Installable WordPress file only. The Full Theme Package has additional files such as the Child Theme zip, plugin file, demo data files, history version file, while the Installable WordPress file contains only the files you need to upload to WordPress.

• Log in to your ThemeForest account and navigate to your ‘Downloads’ tab and then locate your Arnold theme purchase.
• Click the ‘Download’ button and choose to either download the ‘Installable WordPress file only’, which is just the WordPress installable file, or choose to download ‘All Files & Documentation’ which is the full file package.

Extract the package file

After extract the main zip file, you’ll see these folders and files:

• arnold2.zip – Arnold theme(latest version) installable file
• arnold2-child.zip – Child theme installable file
• plugins folder – The plugins installable file
• version1(for-existing-users) – The Arnold theme version 1.x installable file(for existing users only)

Install the theme file

(you could refer the Video Guide also)

• Login to your WordPress admin.
• In the “Appearance > Themes” menu click tab “Install Themes”.
• At the top of the page click “Upload”, then click “Choose File”.
• Select the zipped theme file, “arnold2.zip“, and click “Install Now”.
• After installation, you will receive a success message confirming your new install. Click “Activate”.
• If you see this page, it means that it has been installed successfully

Tips:
1. Be sure to extract the file “arnold2.zip” from the ThemeForest download before uploading. Using the ThemeForest ZIP file directly will result in a “Missing Style Sheet” error. 
2. If “The link you followed has expired.” is shown when you upload the zip file. It may be caused by upload size limitation, please increase the PHP configuration:

post_max_size = 64M
upload_max_filesize = 64M

Install Bundled Plugins

After activating the theme, you would notice the message box on the top of the admin pages to ask you to install/activate some plugins, and you could use them for free or cancel the messages. Include BM Content Builder(must install), Permalinks Customizer, WP Google Maps, Loco Translate, SVG Support.

• Click Begin installing plugins in this message.
• You could check all required plugins; they are optional. You could install/activate what you need: 

Note: Please install/activate the BM Content Builder before import demo data.
Not all plugins are necessary. If you don’t need maps, you will not install Google Maps.
Please note that don’t activate the WordPress Classic editor by Classic editor plugin or other way.

Import Demo Data

• Install/activate the BM Content Builder and SVG Support plugin.
• Go to Plugins > Installed plugins, Deactivate all plugins except BM Content Builder.
• Go to Arnold Theme > Import Demo, select a demo(thumbnail), the “Import” will be activated, click it. Please check the tutorials if you want import Shop demo(Demo9).

Maybe you want to import multiple content. Please delete the previously imported content (including pages, posts, media) and empty the trash before new imports. If there is not useful content on your WordPress website, you could delete content by the WP Reset plugin. Please notice, the plugin will REMOVE all content(posts/pages/uploaded images, etc). Don’t use it if there is useful content on your website. 

It is not necessary to import multiple demos. If you want to use a layout. You could find and import it by inserting a template, check more.

Notice:

• Please deactivate all plugins except the BM Content Builder before start importing.
• Please do not activate the child theme. Or there would be not any demo data shown out. You could re-activate the child theme after importing demo data.
• If there are not demo shown( but the number 1 shown as the screenshot), please add the code to wp-config.php(how)define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
• The gray boxes are the placeholder images, you could replace them as your own images, check more

Please contact us by seatheme.net@gmail.com if you meet in trouble. We are happy to help you solve it.

Replace the placeholders

For license reason, the placeholder images(colorful images) replace the demo pictures. You could replace them with your own images.

Please go to Portfolio > All Portfolio:

Edit each single portfolios, replace the Featured image as your own image(the featured image is for the thumbnail of the portfolio list):

Click BM Content Builder to enter the builder panel, click the pencil, edit the module to replace images in the single portfolio(project) page.

Config Auto-Updating

You could config to set auto-update following this tutorials.

Manual Update

We will constantly update the Arnold theme, including adding new features, fixing bugs, and adapting to new software (WordPress, WooCommerce). Please go to “Arnold Theme > About” to check the version number of Arnold theme running on your website.

You could check the latest version of Arnold theme on Themeforest. If the(latest) version is newer than your website.

Or update the Arnold theme manually following this guide.

Before the update, please make a backup.

• Go to and login themeforest.net, move the mouse cursor to the username on top-right of the page, there is the sub-menu slide down, click “download” to go download page, click “Installable WordPress file only” to download the installable file.

• Login to your WordPress website admin.
• In the “Appearance > Themes” menu,  please activate a default theme(like Twenty Nineteen theme). Because you cannot delete a currently activated theme.

• Please delete the Arnold theme(click “Theme Details” on Arnold thumbnail, there is the popup panel, click “delete” on the bottom-right corner)
  ps: it will only remove the theme files. it will NOT remove the website data(posts, pages, media, options).

• At the top of the page click “Add New”, click “Upload Theme”, then click the file input to select a file.

• Pickup the downloaded file, click “Install Now”.

• If you meet the issue: “The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.”. Please refer to this article to fix it.
• After installation, you will receive a success message confirming your new install.
• Click the link “Activate”.

After updating the main theme, please update the BM Content builder plugin also:

Go to Plugins > All Plugins, find BM Content Builder, click “Update Required”, it will guide you to finish the update.

Major Update

Be careful, sometimes there are major updates, such as 1.x to 2.x. Be sure to read the update log before updating the large version. Because it may cause unpredictable problems.