Installing WPIcons
How to install WPIcons
In this tutorial, we’ll go through how to install the WPIcons plugin on your WordPress website. Once completed, WPIcons should be installed on your website and you should be ready to insert some of the default bundled icons, start uploading custom SVG icons or downloading icons from any of the bundled services.
Let’s begin!
Download WPIcons
The first thing you’ll need to do is download the WPIcons plugin. Whether you have purchased the pro version including a license from this site, or you’ve chosen to try out the free version hosted on WordPress.org, there are different approaches to installing the plugin.
WPIcons Lite (download & install)
The free version of WPIcons can be downloaded and installed directly from your WordPress admin dashboard.
Login to your WordPress website dashboard and head into Plugins ⇨ Add New and in the top right hand corner search for “WPIcons“. Locate WPIcons and click on the “Install Now” button to begin the installation.
Note: Some parts of the image above may be outdated as WPIcons is updated in future releases. Keep in mind, the proper plugin is WPIcons by Code Parrots.
When the installation completes, you can activate the plugin. The free version installation is complete.
WPIcons Pro
After purchasing WPIcons Pro, you’ll be emailed a copy of your purchase receipt. The purchase receipt contains your license key along with a link to download WPIcons Pro. You have 24 hours after receiving the email to download the plugin. After 24 hours the download link will expire, and you’ll need to login to your account where you can access your purchase history.
Login and Upload the plugin
When you’ve downloaded a copy of WPIcons Pro to your local hard drive, you’ll want to login to your WordPress website dashboard. Once logged in you should be on the dashboard screen, which looks similar to the following:
From the dashboard, in the left-hand sidebar navigate to Plugins ⇨ Add New.
When on the Add Plugins page, at the top of the page, click on Upload Plugin to reveal a file upload field.
Click on “Choose File” to bring up the file browser. Navigate the file browser and locate and select the .zip archive downloaded in the previous step.
After selecting the file from your local hard drive, click the “Install Now” button.
During the installation process, the zip archive will be unpackaged and installed on your website. When the installation is successful you’ll want to click the blue “Activate Plugin” button.
When the plugin successfully activates you’ll be redirected to the WPIcons Welcome Page where you can About WPIcons, read our Getting Started guide or read the Changelog for information about what’s changed between versions.
