Do you want to add Crowdfunding capabilities on your WordPress website hosted by Bluehost? If so, this tutorial will show you how to add and enable the Thrinacia Atlas WordPress plugin on your WordPress website.
Please note that normally Thrinacia Atlas can run in standalone mode or with standalone UI that we host for you as part of the subscription plan, but if for some reason you have an existing Bluehost website and want to run the crowdfunding section there, then this blog may be for you.
Below are the steps that it takes to add a full white label Crowdfunding platform on your WordPress website while using Bluehost.
Step 1. Subscribe to the Atlas subscription plan
Go to the pricing page on Thrinacia’s website, and choose the plan that best suits your needs. Upon purchasing the subscription plan, you can begin to build the Crowdfunding platform. For this example, we are going to use Thrinacia’s demo website called Origin.
Step 2. Use Bluehost to create and host the WordPress website
If you have not done so already, you can create a WordPress website through Bluehost. There is a one click install to add and create a new WordPress website. Click on the “install WordPress” button on the left side of the page to create a new WordPress website.
Once installing WordPress, do the following steps.
You have now created the new WordPress website!
Step 3. Log into the WordPress website, and download the Thrinacia Atlas WordPress plugin
Go to the administrator dashboard, click on the plugins option in the left side menu, and click on add new. Search for Thrinacia, and the Thrinacia Atlas WordPress plugin should appear as shown in the below image.
Install, and activate the plugin.
Step 4. Save the permalink settings and add the page path
In the left menu, go to settings, and click on the permalinks option. On the permalinks settings page, enable the post name option and save the settings.
This will allow you to set the path for the page that you want to use for your Crowdfunding platform.
Add the path you would like the page to be hosted on by clicking on the settings item in the left menu and clicking on Thrinacia Atlas option. Add the path that you would like the page to be called. For this demo, we will adding fundraising as the path name.
Once you have added the path and saved, you will see that a new page has been added by going to pages in the left menu.
As you can see, the new page that was added has the same path as you set in the Thrinacia Atlas settings.
Step 5. Create the app_local.js file
Go to your website. In the browser, add the following (/app_local.js) behind the site URL you are using for your Atlas subscription plan, and click enter. For this example, we are using the Origin demo website, so the URL will look like this https://origin.thrinacia.com/app_local.js
Copy the text that you see on that page, and create a new file in a code editor. Paste the content into that file, and save the file as app_local.js.
Step 6. Access the site files using the file manager and add the app_local.js
Log into your Bluehost account, and click on the “Control Panel” on the right side.
Next, go to the file manager by click on file manager on the left side of the page.
Once on the file manager page, click on the public_html folder.
Next, click on the wp-content folder.
Click on the plugins folder.
Click on the thrinacia-atlas-crowdfunding folder.
Click on the angular folder.
Upload the app_local.js file into this folder. Click on the upload button at the top of the page.
Your Crowdfunding platform should now be fully connected to your WordPress website. You can now go to the fundraising page (or whatever page path you set), and preview the page.
Step 7. Setting up optional pre-rendering for crawling and indexing
You may also need the correct pre-rendering setup for crawlers from google, facebook, slack, bing, and other places. This ensures your website is indexed correctly in search engines and links can be shared on social media websites. Since you are hosting WordPress on Bluehost, you need to proxy traffic to our pre-rendering cluster.
To get this setup please open a support ticket on nexus.thrinacia.com under your project so we can quickly set this up for you. Our existing set of rules is compatible with nginx and apache web servers. Please note that SSH Access may be needed.
You can watch the below video to learn more about adding the WordPress plugin on your Bluehost website: