Brand Your Pre-Built Website Kit
Branding is an important step of the website design process. This guide will walk you through how to complete the different branding steps for your theme kit to allow you to adjust the template to fit your business's branding guidelines.
Change Site Logo & Favicon
To update the logo on your site globally, you can change the site logo file by following these steps.
Go to Elementor Home A screenshot of the Elementor menu in the WordPress admin area with the 'Home' sub-menu item higPopularSet Up A WordPress Hosting Account
If you don’t already have a company who is providing hosting services for your website, you will need one. We require that your web hosting provider has the ability to host and run a WordPress website.
As our last update, your hosting provider will require:
A Minimum of 1 vCPU
A Minimum of 1 GB Memory
A Minimum of 10 GB Disk Space
Install WordPress on FTG Hosting
To install WordPress on our cPanel hosting services, you can follow the pre-written guide we have below:
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To set your website up for the best experience not only for you as an admin, but for your visitors as they utilize your site, you can follow the recommendations below to set up your installation.
These recommendations may affect your website experience or cause log files to show incorrect date and time stamps if improperly configured.
You will need to set up a few items in your installation to ensure that things are configured for your desired preferences.
Go to Settings GeneralFew readersImport and Install Your Kit into WordPress
To import your kit, follow this guide to ensure that you get the best experience out of your kit. The next step will be to upload your theme kit to WordPress itself using the plugin 'Elementor' that you just installed.
Go to Templates Kit Library
A screenshot of the Templates menu in the WordPress admin area with the 'Kit Library' sub-menu item highlighted.
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To import the custom post types that are included with your kit, you can follow the guide enclosed to import your configuration for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).
Go to your WordPress Dashboard, and go to ACF Tools A screenshot of the ACF menu in the WordPress Admin Area with the 'Tools' sub-menu item selected. (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/a/0/a/5/a0a5c01800696800/screenshot20240814094927Few readersHow to Sign Up For an Elementor Pro Account
Follow the instructions in this guide for a quick walk-through on how to sign up for an Elementor Pro account to ensure that you have the license and plugin files necessary to use Elementor Pro on your site.
If you already have an 'Advanced' license or higher, you can skip this section and move to the next one.
The next step is to purchase a license for Elementor Pro. This will give you the full feature set of Elementor, and ensure that all elements within the Theme Kit can be used properly.Few readersInstall Required Plugins for Your Theme Kit
To ensure that you can use your Theme Kit, follow the instructions enclosed to ensure that you are covering all of the requirements prior to installing your kit.
Remove Unnecessary Plugins
Sometimes your WordPress installation will come with plugin already installed per your hosting company's recommendation. Some of these plugin may be hosting specific, but in most cases, these plugins aren't initially necessary in your setup, and can be removed to keep your installation simple.
Go to yFew readersHow to Install the Hello Elementor Theme in WordPress
We require the theme 'Hello Elementor' to provide a simplified and slimmed down base for us to build on top of. This allows us to move the design load to Elementor completely without relying on a separate theme to provide critical functionality within the site.
Go to Appearance Themes
Click Add New Theme
Search for and install Hello Elementor (Hover over the tile to show the Blue install button)
Click on ActivateFew readersHow to Activate Your Elementor Pro License
To activate your Elementor Pro license, you can follow the steps enclosed. This will ensure that your Elementor Pro plugin will receive updates moving forward, and that all of the features of your plugin are available to you.
Go to your WordPress Dashboard, and go to Elementor License. A screenshot of the Elementor Menu in the WordPress Admin area with the 'License' sub-menu item highlighted. (https://storage.cFew readersEnable Kit-Required Elementor Features
There are some features that are currently not enabled by default in Elementor that we need to ensure that all of the elements that were built for your website are properly imported.
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To ensure that Elementor has full control over your global color styling across your WordPress website, you need to disable the default theme colors to give control to the Elementor Page Builder. You can do this by following the guide below.
Go to Elementor Settings
Find Disable Default Colors, and Disable Default Fonts and make sure they are checked A screenshot of the Elementor Settings page showing the 'disable default colors', and 'disable default fonts' settings. (httFew readers