How To Install Your Divi Builder WordPress Plugin

How To Install Your Divi Builder WordPress Plugin

How To Install Your Divi Builder WordPress Plugin
Installing our plugins is a snap using the WordPress Dashboard plugin installer.

Download Your Plugin

To update your new plugin, you must first upload it to your WordPress website via the WordPress dashboard. When you download the Divi Builder from the Elegant Themes Member』s Area, you will be be given a file called divi-builder.zip. Some browsers (such as Safari on OSX) will automatically unzip that folder for you. In this case, you will need to re-size the divi-builder folder by right clicking the folder and compressing it. Once you have located your divi-builder.zip file, you are read to upload it to your WordPress website.
Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and click the Plugins > Add New link. This will bring you to the WordPress plugins page.
Upload Your Plugin

After the plugins page in your dashboard has loaded, locate the 「Upload Plugin」 button towards the top of the screen. Click this button to proceed to the next step.
Choose Your Plugin ZIP File

After clicking 「Upload Plugin,」 you will be taken to a new page where you can select the plugin that you would like to install. In this case, we will be installing the divi-builder.zip file that you downloaded earlier. Click the 「Choose File」 button to open a local browser window.
Upload And Activate

You will need to browse your local machine and find the divi-builder.zip file. You will often find it in your Downloads folder, but it depends on your browser settings. Once you have located the file, select it and click the Open button. Next click the 「Install」 button to install the divi-builder.zip folder that you have just selected. After the plugin has been uploaded you will be taken to a confirmation page where you can activate the plugin. Click the 「activate」 button and you are good to go!

How To Update Your Divi Builder WordPress Plugin

How To Update Your Divi Builder WordPress Plugin

How To Update Your Divi Builder WordPress Plugin
Using our Elegant Updater Plugin, you can update the Divi Builder right from your dashboard.

Updating Your Themes & Plugins
Before you can update, you must first authenticate your Elegant Themes subscription by inputting your Username and API Key into the Updates tab of your theme or plugin settings. Only members with active Elegant Themes accounts have access to the latest versions of our products. Your Username is the username you use when logging in to ElegantThemes.com, and your API Key can be found by logging into your Elegant Themes account and clicking on the Account > Your API Key link. Once you have authenticated your account, you can click the update link when you receive an update notification to automatically update your theme or plugin
Update Notifications
When new updates become available for any of our themes or plugins, a notification will appear in the Dashboard > Updates page of your website』s WordPress Dashboard.

Authenticating Your Membership
Before you can update your theme or plugin, you must first authenticate your Elegant Themes subscription. Only members with active accounts have access to product updates. To authenticate your account, you will be asked to input two pieces of information into your theme or plugin settings panel: 1) Your Username and 2) Your API Key. Your username is the same username you use when logging in to your ElegantThemes.com account, and your API Key is a unique identifier used to authenticate your account that is only available to you when logging in. To locate your API Key, log in to the Elegant Themes members area and click on the Account > Your API Key link. Copy the API Key displayed on the page. You will by pasting this key into your Theme or Plugin options page.

Once you have copied your API Key, you will need to use it to authenticate your account by pasting it into your theme or plugin options page. Log in to your website』s WordPress Dashboard and navigate to your theme or plugin options page. For Divi, this can be found by clicking the Divi > Plugin Options link.

Once you have loaded your theme or plugin options page, look for the Updates tab. Click the Updates tab to reveal the Username and API Key fields. Type your username into the Username field and paste the API Key you copied earlier into the API Key field. You should confirm that you have not copied any extra white spaces by mistake. Click save to complete the account authorization.

Once you have entered your credentials, you are now ready to update your plugin. Click on the Dashboard > Updates tab and update your theme or plugin normally using the WordPress update interface. If you do not see any update notifications, or you receive an authentication error when updating, try waiting a bit and then check back later. Sometimes WordPress will cache update notifications and it can take some time for them to appear correctly.