{"id":1272,"date":"2017-02-20T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/docs.contentviewspro.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2024-10-03T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:37:05","password":"","slug":"installation","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/installation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install?"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n\tul {<br \/>\n\t\tlist-style-type: decimal;<br \/>\n\t\tmargin-left: 19px;<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<p><strong>Content Views<\/strong> (<em>free at <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/content-views-query-and-display-post-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wordpress.org<\/a><\/em>) is a WordPress plugin that helps you to display posts, pages in a responsive layout without coding.<br \/>\n<strong>Content Views Pro<\/strong> is a premium extension of Content Views, it adds a lot of advanced useful features to the free plugin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To use Pro features, you need to install &amp; activate both Content Views and Content Views Pro:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2728\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Plugins-Content-Views-and-Content-Views-Pro-e1514957623731.png\" alt=\"Plugins - Content Views and Content Views Pro\" width=\"654\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Plugins-Content-Views-and-Content-Views-Pro-e1514957623731.png 650w, https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Plugins-Content-Views-and-Content-Views-Pro-e1514957623731-300x64.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>When you renew or upgrade Content Views Pro from an existing license, you do NOT need to reinstall it. The automatic update will handle it for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"cv\">I. Install Content Views<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>If you already installed the Free version, please skip this step and <a href=\"#cvpro\">install the Pro version<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>In Admin dashboard, click <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5120\" style=\"box-shadow: none; margin: -5px 0 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plugin-icon.png\" alt=\"Plugins icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"23\" \/><strong>Plugins<\/strong> menu<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5118\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Plugins-menu.png\" alt=\"Plugins menu\" width=\"181\" height=\"133\" \/><br \/>\n, then click <strong>Add New<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-968\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Add-Plugins-\u2039-Add-New.png\" alt=\"WordPress add new plugin\" width=\"184\" height=\"202\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>Content Views<\/strong> in search box, then press Enter<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-542\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/installf.png\" alt=\"install\" width=\"1157\" height=\"150\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Content Views will appear as the first result, click <strong>Install Now<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/content-views-plugin-install.png\" alt=\"installf3\" width=\"581\" height=\"376\" \/><\/li>\n<li>You will be taken to the installing page:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-544\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/installf4.png\" alt=\"installf4\" width=\"818\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/installf4.png 818w, https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/installf4-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/installf4-768x207.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><br \/>\nplease click <strong>Activate Plugin<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"cvpro\">II. Install Content Views Pro<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>The Pro version requires the Free version to work. If you have not installed the Free version, please <a href=\"#cv\">follow the above steps<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>If you have not downloaded the Pro plugin, please <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.contentviewspro.com\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download it here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In Admin dashboard, click <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5120\" style=\"box-shadow: none; margin: -5px 0 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plugin-icon.png\" alt=\"Plugins icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"23\" \/><strong>Plugins<\/strong> menu<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5118\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Plugins-menu.png\" alt=\"Plugins menu\" width=\"181\" height=\"133\" \/><br \/>\n, then click <strong>Add New<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-968\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Add-Plugins-\u2039-Add-New.png\" alt=\"WordPress add new plugin\" width=\"184\" height=\"202\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Upload Plugin<\/strong> at the top of the page<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5121\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/upload-plugin-button-1.png\" alt=\"upload-plugin\" width=\"1010\" height=\"179\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Choose File<\/strong> button<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-536\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/install2.png\" alt=\"install2\" width=\"926\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/install2.png 926w, https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/install2-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/install2-768x210.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><br \/>\nthen select the downloaded .zip file <code style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; display: inline-block;\">pt-content-views-pro-VERSION_NUMBER.zip<\/code><br \/>\nThen click <strong>Install Now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Mac users, if you can&#8217;t find the zip file, please <a href=\"#problem\">find solution here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>You will be taken to the installing page:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-537\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/install3.png\" alt=\"install3\" width=\"711\" height=\"175\" \/><br \/>\nplease click <strong>Activate Plugin<\/strong>. It&#8217;s done \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To update CVPro automatically, please put your <strong>license key<\/strong> to the text field in <strong>Content Views &gt;&gt; Settings<\/strong> page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1577\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Content-Views-Settings-add-license-key.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"221\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are using a multisite network, please add the license key to one site in your network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"problem\">Notice for Mac users:<\/h2>\n<p>If you are using Safari browser on a Mac and you can&#8217;t find the zip file to install, but you see the folder <code>pt-content-views-pro<\/code><br \/>\n=&gt; The reason is the Safari browser unzipped the file automatically<br \/>\n=&gt; The solution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>download Pro plugin by another browser (Chrome, Firefox), you will get the original zip file<\/li>\n<li>or right click on the folder <code>pt-content-views-pro<\/code>, then select <strong>Compress &#8220;pt-content-views-pro&#8221;<\/strong> to make a new zip file.<br \/>\nThe folder name (before compressing) must be <strong>pt-content-views-pro<\/strong>, otherwise CVPro will not able to work.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1563\" src=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVP-mac-compress.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVP-mac-compress.png 522w, https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/CVP-mac-compress-300x30.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content Views (free at wordpress.org) is a WordPress plugin that helps you to display posts, pages in a responsive layout without coding. Content Views Pro is a premium extension of Content Views, it adds a lot of advanced useful features to the free plugin. To use Pro features, you need to install &amp; activate both &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/article\/installation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to install?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[19],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1272","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-getting-started"],"year_month":"2026-09","word_count":383,"total_views":"7","reactions":{"happy":"1","normal":"2","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin1","author_nicename":"admin1","author_url":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/author\/admin1\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Getting Started","term_url":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/cats\/getting-started\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1272\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentviewspro.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}