Benevolence is a Charity and Nonprofit Premium WordPress theme perfect for creating a website for your Church, Synagogue, Religious Group, or just to support a nonprofit cause you’re passionate about. In this tutorial, we will be installing your theme, just follow this step by step guide on How to Install a Nonprofit WordPress Theme and create an amazing website for your charity.

Benevolence - Charity & Nonprofit WordPress Theme
Benevolence – Charity & Nonprofit WordPress Theme

Install the theme Video:

Upload the Theme

Using FTP

To add a new theme to your WordPress installation you must follow these basic steps on How to Install a Nonprofit WordPress Theme:

  1. Download the theme archive and extract the files it contains.
  2. Use a FTP client (we recommend FileZilla) to access your host web server and upload the extracted folder, named benevolence-wpl, to the wp-content/themes/ directory.
  3. Follow the below instructions to activate the theme.

Using the Administration Panel

  1. Download the theme archive and extract the files it contains.
  2. Log into the WordPress Administration Panel.
  3. Select the Appearance → Themes from the main menu.
  4. Click on Add New at the top of the page.
  5. Click on Upload Theme at the top of the page.
  6. Click Upload, select the theme archive you’ve downloaded in step 1, named benevolence-wpl.zip and click Install Now.
  7. Follow the below instructions to activate the theme.

Activate the Theme

  1. Log into the WordPress Administration Panel.
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yourdomain.com/wp-admin

Select the Appearance → Themes from the main menu.

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Appearance → Themes Hover over Benevolence WPL and click on Activate to enable the theme.

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Activating Benevolence in the Appearance section of the WordPress Administration Panel.

Update the theme

  1. Make a Backup.
  2. Log into the WordPress Administration Panel.
  3. Select the Appearance → Themes from the main menu.
  4. Activate another theme, like the WordPress’ default, Twenty Sixteen.
  5. Delete the theme (Benevolence WPL).
  6. Upload the benevolence-wpl.zip file as described above.
  7. Activate the theme you used before the update.

[wpls_alert alert_shape=”alert-shape-rectangular” alert_type=”alert-type-warning” alert_width=”100%”]If you are also using the Benevolence Child Theme, never update or delete it, and update the parent theme, Benevolence WPL instead. Updating the child theme will cause you to lose custom modifications to your site.[/wpls_alert]

Troubleshooting

Missing Stylesheet

A common issue that can occur with users new to installing WordPress themes is a “Stylesheet is missing” error message being displayed when trying to upload or activate the theme.

This error message does not mean that the theme is not working, it simply means it has been uploaded incorrectly. Luckily, there is a very easy fix.

If you have uploaded the theme through the WordPress Administration Panel, try deleting the theme from your site and uploading the benevolence-wpl.zip file again.

If you uploaded the theme using FTP, navigate to the theme directory (wp-content/themes/benevolence-wpl/) and try uploading the style.css file again.

Hope you followed the steps on How to Install a Nonprofit WordPress Theme and everything went great. Now start building the dream website and achieve your goals!

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