Getting Started

Installation

Uploading via the WordPress Dashboard

  1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
  2. Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
  3. Select custom-layouts.zip from your computer
  4. Click ‘Install Now’
  5. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Using FTP

  1. Download custom-layouts.zip
  2. Extract the custom-layouts directory to your computer
  3. Upload the custom-layouts directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Sample Templates

To import the sample template data, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your site as an administrator.
  2. Go to Tools: “Import” in the WordPress admin panel.
  3. Install the “WordPress” importer from the list.
  4. Activate & Run Importer.
  5. Upload the file from our plugin folder – custom-layouts/sample-data/sample-templates.xml – using the form provided on that page.
  6. You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the site. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the site or to create a new user.
  7. WordPress will then import each of the templates into your site.
  8. Access your new templates via WordPress admin -> Custom Layouts -> Templates