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Installing the theme

Install Goodnews through the WordPress dashboard or over FTP, and activate it.

Goodnews ships as a single ZIP file, goodnews5.zip, downloaded from your ThemeForest downloads page. There are two ways to install it: through the WordPress dashboard, or by uploading the theme folder over FTP. Use the dashboard method unless your file is too large for your host's upload limit.

Requirements

Goodnews requires WordPress 5.0 or later and PHP 7.4 or later. It has been tested on WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.2.

Install through the WordPress dashboard

  1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme.
  2. Click Upload Theme.
  3. Click Choose File and select goodnews5.zip from your computer.
  4. Click Install Now and wait for the upload to finish.
  5. Click Activate.
WordPress Add Themes screen with Upload Theme selected and the file field empty.
Upload Theme panel with goodnews5.zip chosen and Install Now enabled.
Theme installation result screen showing Goodnews installed successfully.
WordPress Themes screen with the Goodnews card hovered and the Activate button visible.

Install over FTP

  1. Unzip goodnews5.zip on your computer. This produces a folder named goodnews5.
  2. Connect to your host with an FTP client.
  3. Upload the goodnews5 folder to wp-content/themes/ on your server.
  4. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance → Themes and activate Goodnews.

After activation

Activating the theme does not install any content. To start with a populated site that looks like the demo, see Importing the demo content. To build your own site from scratch, continue with The theme options panel.

If the theme fails to install

A "broken theme" or "missing stylesheet" error usually means the ZIP was unzipped before upload, or the wrong file was selected. Upload goodnews5.zip itself — do not unzip it first when using the dashboard method. If you continue to see this error, see Missing stylesheet on install.