For a number of reasons, I decided to look at the Avada theme by Theme Fusion.
Here are the steps to install the theme:
- Configure WordPress on a web hosting account.
- Purchase the theme
- Download the theme only zip file – Avada.zip
- Login into WordPress as an admin
- Appearance –> Themes
- Click Add New
- Click Upload Theme
- Click Browse and find the file
- Click Install Now
- If that gives an error message, install theme via FTP
- extract the contents of the ZIP file
- copy the folder via FTP to the wp-content/themes
- Activate the theme
- Click Begin installing plugins
- Install all three
- Activate all three
- Plugins
- Dismiss message to activate Revolution Slider
The next step was to install the demo content:
- Login into WordPress as an admin
- Appearance –> Theme Options –> General
- Click Import Demo Content
After the demo content is installed, there is a message to install and run Regenerate Thumbnails plugin once.