{"id":14865,"date":"2021-03-16T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpdesk.spider-themes.net\/docs\/docy-wordpress-theme\/getting-started\/plugins-installation\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T19:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:51:31","slug":"plugins-installation","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/docs\/docy-wordpress-theme\/getting-started\/plugins-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugins Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>After activating the&nbsp;<strong>Docy&nbsp;<\/strong>WordPress&nbsp;theme, you will see a message that tells you to install some required and recommended plugins, click on&nbsp;Begin Installing Plugins,&nbsp;or if you can\u2019t see that message, Go to&nbsp;<strong>Appearance &gt; Install plugins<\/strong>&nbsp;and star install all the plugins<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Next step select all the plugins and change the drop-down menu to&nbsp;<strong>Install<\/strong>&nbsp;then click on&nbsp;<strong>the Apply<\/strong>&nbsp;button and wait for the installation process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>After installing plugins you will redirect to the plugins list, again select all the plugins and change the drop-down this time to\u00a0<strong>Activate<\/strong>\u00a0and click on\u00a0<strong>Apply<\/strong>\u00a0button then wait for the activation process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Here is the list of the required and recommended plugins for the theme.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"ordered-list wp-block-list\"><li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>Docy Core<\/strong>\u00a0<\/mark>is the plugin that we built for the theme. The Elementor widgets, WordPress custom widgets &amp; other features developed in this plugin.<\/li><li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>Elementor:<\/strong> <\/mark>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/elementor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elementor<\/a> page builder plugin is used to build the page elements. You can easily build the theme elements by drag &amp; drop with this plugin.<\/li><li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>Pro Elements for Elementor:<\/strong> <\/mark>Docy integrates seamlessly both with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elementor Pro<\/a>\u00a0and its free alternative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/proelements.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PRO Elements<\/a>. No need to install bulky third-party add-ons or plugins.\u00a0<\/li><li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">bbPress:<\/mark><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/bbpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bbPress<\/a> is used to build the Forum part of the theme. That means bbPress is required if you want to use the Forum feature in the theme. bbPress is intentionally simple yet infinitely powerful free forum software in the market.<\/li><li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>weDocs<\/strong> <\/mark>plugin is integrated for creating and maintaining knowledge base articles. You can host docs inside your WordPress, create\/add new docs, organize with ordering, tags and even fetch docs from external sites using this plugin. This plugin is extremely handy for delivering long and detailed documentation of your WordPress product\/plugin by bundling this with it. weDocs makes browsing and creating documentation a fresh and streamlined experience within the familiarity of your WP environment.<\/li><li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Redux Framework<\/mark><\/strong> plugin is used to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.creativegigs.net\/docs\/docly-wordpress-theme-documentation\/docly-options\/theme-settings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Theme Settings<\/a> page. Notable that, we slightly modified this plugin to add some extra features.<\/li><li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Advanced Custom Fields-pro<\/mark><\/strong> is a premium plugin that bundled with the theme &amp; used to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.creativegigs.net\/docs\/docly-wordpress-theme-documentation\/docly-options\/page-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Page Options<\/a><\/li><li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>One Click Demo Import<\/strong>:<\/mark> You can easily import the theme demo with the<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/one-click-demo-import\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> One Click Demo Import<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>plugin. We integrated this plugin for easy importing the theme demo.<\/li><li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Contact Form 7<\/mark><\/strong> is used to create contact forms on the theme demo. This plugin can manage multiple contact forms.<\/li><\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>If you face any problems or couldn\u2019t install plugins, feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/helpdesk.spider-themes.net\/forums\/forum\/docy-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/helpdesk.spider-themes.net\/forums\/forum\/docy-wordpress\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">open a support ticket.<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After activating the&nbsp;Docy&nbsp;WordPress&nbsp;theme, you will see a message that tells you to install some required and recommended plugins, click on&nbsp;Begin Installing Plugins,&nbsp;or if you can\u2019t see that message, Go to&nbsp;Appearance &gt; Install plugins&nbsp;and star install all the plugins Next step select all the plugins and change the drop-down menu to&nbsp;Install&nbsp;then click on&nbsp;the Apply&nbsp;button and wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3077,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-14865","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14889,"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14865\/revisions\/14889"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landpagy.twixxer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}