Installation of this theme pack assumes you have already installed the WordPress blog platform to the root of your new or existing domain. In addition, you have already installed your BANS store into a subfolder of the public_html directory. Ex:
www.yourwebsite.com/ (Brings up the WordPress blog)
www.yourwebsite.com/auctions/ (Brings up your BANS site, can be named anything you desire)
If you click the yellow folder to the left of your public_html folder in your cPanel file manager, you should see a directory structure as follows:
(I added the red boxes and text)
Most of the folders in the root (public_html) of the domain are for your WordPress installation, the auctions folder above, was created for the BANS installation. At this point, you can go to your BANS site admin: www.yourwebsite.com/auctions/admin/ (change the word auctions to the folder where you installed BANS) and configure your store as you would normally. Set your security, preferences, eBay category etc, just like you would in any other BANS install.
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MAIN FILES IN THIS ARCHIVE
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STEP 1 - Upload the WORDPRESS Files to your Domain
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1 - Upload the following files to the root of the domain.
Upload to: /public_html/
sidebar2.php
sidebar3.php
sidebar4.php
inc-main-menu.php
inc-top-menu.php
inc-credits.php
searchform.php
and the folder: /ad-images/
When these files are successfully uploaded, the file structure will be:
2 - Upload the entire bans-flex folder into your public_html/wp-content/themes/ folder. When you are done, you will have a new folder inside the themes folder and it will look like:
3 - Upload the ad-images/ folder to the root of your domain. When completed, you will have: public_html/ad-images/
4 - Upload the included plugins to the public_html/wp-content/plugins/ folder. When completed, you will have:
5 - Open the file: public_html/searchform.php and edit the following code on line to reflect your domain.
<option value="http://www.yourwebsite.com/?s=">Search Articles</option>
<option value="http://www.yourwebsite.com/auctions/search/" selected>Search Store</option>
<input type="image" src="http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-content/themes/bans_flex/images/go.jpg" id="go" alt="Search" title="Search" />
If you have edited the file on your local system with notepad or the html editor of your choice, make sure you upload all files to your hosting account on the server again. If you have edited these files within the cPanel html editor, click on save and close the window.
6 - Inside the /wp-content/themes/bans-flex/ folder, open footer.php and edit the following lines of code near the bottom:
<div id="footer">
<div id="footerleft">
<!-- www.yourwebsite.com MUST be changed to your website address -->
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/sidebar2.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
</div>
<div id="footermid">
<!-- www.yourwebsite.com MUST be changed to your website address -->
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/sidebar3.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
</div>
<div id="footerright">
<!-- www.yourwebsite.com MUST be changed to your website address -->
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/sidebar4.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="credits">
<!-- www.yourwebsite.com MUST be changed to your website address -->
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/inc-credits.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
</div>
Changing the domain to reflect your own.
If you have edited the file on your local system with notepad or the html editor of your choice, make sure you upload all files to your hosting account on the server again. If you have edited these files within the cPanel html editor, click on save and close the window.
7 - Inside the /wp-content/themes/bans-flex/ folder, open sidebar.php and edit the following lines of code to reflect the location of your BANS store installation.
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/auctions/inc-store-menu.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
If you have edited the file on your local system with notepad or the html editor of your choice, make sure you upload all files to your hosting account on the server again. If you have edited these files within the cPanel html editor, click on save and close the window.
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STEP 2 - Upload the BANS Files to your Domain
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1 - Upload the following files to the folder you created for your BANS store, I used the auctions folder in the example.
Upload to: /public_html/auctions/ (/auctions/ represents the folder of your bans store location)
and the bans theme folder: /flex-bans/
When these files are successfully uploaded, the file structure will be:
2 - Inside the public_html/auctions/themes/flex-bans/ folder, open header.php and edit the following to reflect the correct info for your domain:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-content/themes/bans_flex/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
Next, in the same file:
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/inc-top-menu.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
If you have edited the file on your local system with notepad or the html editor of your choice, make sure you upload all files to your hosting account on the server again. If you have edited these files within the cPanel html editor, or the BANS admin section, click on save.
3- Inside the public_html/auctions/themes/flex-bans/ folder, open footer.php and edit the following to reflect the correct info for your domain:
<div id="sidebarleft">
<!-- www.yourwebsite.com MUST be changed to your website address -->
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/inc-main-menu.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
</div>
Next, in the same file:
<div id="footer">
<div id="footerleft">
<!-- www.yourwebsite.com MUST be changed to your website address -->
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/sidebar2.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
</div>
<div id="footermid">
<!-- www.yourwebsite.com MUST be changed to your website address -->
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/sidebar3.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
</div>
<div id="footerright">
<!-- www.yourwebsite.com MUST be changed to your website address -->
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/sidebar4.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="credits">
<!-- www.yourwebsite.com MUST be changed to your website address -->
<?php $file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.yourwebsite.com/inc-credits.php');
// display file
echo $file_contents; ?>
</div>
If you have edited the file on your local system with notepad or the html editor of your choice, make sure you upload all files to your hosting account on the server again. If you have edited these files within the cPanel html editor, or the BANS admin section, click on save.
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STEP 3 - Basic WordPress Configuration & Adding the Store Page inside WordPress
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1 -Setting the Permalink Structure:
2 - Next:
3 - Next:
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOUR STORE FOLDER AND THIS PAGE BE IDENTICAL
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STEP 4 - Basic BANS Template Configuration
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Congrats! Your new template pack should be installed and working on both systems. From this point, we need to activate and configure our plugins, which will be covered in a separate post on the blog.
From here, you MUST continue to build your bans site as normal! In addition, you have the ability to build a blog surrounding your niche store.
Please return to the Niche Store Builder site and post a url on the post so we can all see your new site!
If you have any problems, please contact me at mark@thenichestorebuilder.com and I will be glad to help out.
Mark