{"id":8080,"date":"2021-03-15T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=8080"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:03:34","slug":"strand-installation-and-setup","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/knowledge-base\/faq\/strand-installation-and-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Install &#038; Setup Strand WooCommerce Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1386255741\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-186545412\" class=\"col medium-9 small-12 large-9\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p>After downloading our theme files, unzip it and then open the <strong>Theme folder. <\/strong>Install the strand.zip and strand-child.zip and activate the Strand Child theme (a child theme is always recommended to support custom functions later).<\/p>\n<p>After installation you get prompted with a message to install plugins. We have no required plugins except our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/updates\/welaunch-framework.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weLaunch Framework plugin<\/a>, that is used for auto updates &amp; licensing. After installing weLaunch Framework plugin we recommend to enter your license there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When all is correctly installed you should see a new menu item &gt; Theme settings. Settings are devided into multiple subsections:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>General Settings (Applied for All pages, may get overwritten)<\/li>\n<li>Page Settings (just post type pages)<\/li>\n<li>Blog Settings (Posts &amp; Archive)<\/li>\n<li>WooCommerce (Products &amp; Categories)<\/li>\n<li>Search<\/li>\n<li>Performance<\/li>\n<li>Security<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Instead of using the admin panel settings you can also use the built in WP Live customizer to setup your website.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1466305516\" class=\"col medium-2 small-12 large-2\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_216547489\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/Strand-theme-settings.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Strand theme settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/Strand-theme-settings.png 314w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/Strand-theme-settings-247x481.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/Strand-theme-settings-154x300.png 154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_216547489 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1404179433\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/customizer-theme-settings-642x1024.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"customizer theme settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/customizer-theme-settings-642x1024.png 642w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/customizer-theme-settings-247x394.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/customizer-theme-settings-510x813.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/customizer-theme-settings-188x300.png 188w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/customizer-theme-settings-768x1224.png 768w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/customizer-theme-settings.png 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1404179433 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-840408988\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-283603838\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h2>General Settings<\/h2>\n<p>In the general section you can set your basic stylings, that will be applied through your complete website. Set custom colors, fonts, input field stylings and favicons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover you can activate \/ deactivate all sections of your site:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Callout<\/li>\n<li>Top Bar<\/li>\n<li>Navigation<\/li>\n<li>Header<\/li>\n<li>Breadcrumb<\/li>\n<li>Content<\/li>\n<li>Sidebar<\/li>\n<li>Prefooter<\/li>\n<li>Footer<\/li>\n<li>404 Pages<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1692734276\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner box-shadow-2 dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/general-theme-settings-1024x752.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"general theme settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/general-theme-settings-1024x752.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/general-theme-settings-247x181.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/general-theme-settings-510x375.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/general-theme-settings-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/general-theme-settings-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/general-theme-settings-1536x1129.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/general-theme-settings-2048x1505.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1692734276 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<p>If you need a complete own look &amp; feel and want to use e.g. Elementor Site builder, simply turn off Top Bar &amp; Footer. Then in Navigation &amp; PreFooter you can enable to use shortcodes instead and paste your elementor shortcodes there.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-435808864\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-2094866304\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h2>Page Settings<\/h2>\n<p>Pages are often highly customized via page builders, so by default we disabled the header &amp; breadcrumb settings here.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1956295509\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner box-shadow-2 dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/page-type-settings-1024x424.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"page type settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/page-type-settings-1024x424.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/page-type-settings-247x102.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/page-type-settings-510x211.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/page-type-settings-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/page-type-settings-768x318.png 768w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/page-type-settings-1536x637.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/page-type-settings.png 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1956295509 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-684185313\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-191817831\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h2>Blog Posts &amp; Archive Settings<\/h2>\n<p>Our theme ships with 5 blog archive layouts and multiple post layouts, that you can choose from. Also you can enable or disable sidebar and hide or show all data as you like.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_254974789\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner box-shadow-2 dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/blog-settings-1024x440.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"blog settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/blog-settings-1024x440.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/blog-settings-247x106.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/blog-settings-510x219.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/blog-settings-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/blog-settings-768x330.png 768w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/blog-settings-1536x660.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/blog-settings-2048x880.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_254974789 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1979407922\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-782648180\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h2>WooCommerce Settings<\/h2>\n<p>Same as the blog settings, in WooCommerce settings you can choose from different stylings, style the my account, checkout and cart pages just as you like.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_53692150\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner box-shadow-2 dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/woocommerce-settings-1024x498.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"woocommerce settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/woocommerce-settings-1024x498.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/woocommerce-settings-247x120.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/woocommerce-settings-510x248.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/woocommerce-settings-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/woocommerce-settings-768x373.png 768w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/woocommerce-settings-1536x747.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/woocommerce-settings-2048x996.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_53692150 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-14899391\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-2042972559\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h2>Search Settings<\/h2>\n<p>Beside the AJAX search that you can enable here at live search, you can also choose a layout for the search pages and enable what data to show + what post types to search in.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_748986564\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner box-shadow-2 dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/search-settings-1024x646.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"search settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/search-settings-1024x646.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/search-settings-247x156.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/search-settings-510x322.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/search-settings-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/search-settings-768x485.png 768w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/search-settings-1536x969.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/search-settings-2048x1293.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_748986564 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-834311408\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-882167156\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h2>Performance Settings<\/h2>\n<p>Some performance settings can not be controlled by caching plugins, so we built in CDN, font loading and Gutenberg removal built in natively.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_2021112994\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner box-shadow-2 dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/performance-settings-1024x782.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"performance settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/performance-settings-1024x782.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/performance-settings-247x189.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/performance-settings-510x389.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/performance-settings-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/performance-settings-768x586.png 768w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/performance-settings-1536x1173.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/03\/performance-settings.png 1878w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_2021112994 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"message-box relative dark\" style=\"padding-top:15px;padding-bottom:15px;\"><div class=\"message-box-bg-image bg-fill fill\" ><\/div><div class=\"message-box-bg-overlay bg-fill fill\" style=\"background-color:rgb(254, 0, 0);\"><\/div><div class=\"container 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This will stop building the custom CSS file all the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-161248290\" class=\"col medium-2 small-12 large-2\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","product_cat":[],"class_list":["post-8080","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","faq_topics-strand","faq_topics-strand-getting-started"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/8080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8080"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/8080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8109,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/8080\/revisions\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=8080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}