Are you creating your website using WordPress, and would you like to add Crowdfunding capabilities, and campaigns to your website? This tutorial will show you how you can quickly add a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign to your new or existing WordPress website.
This is the third article of the blog series for adding Crowdfunding features on your CMS website. Other articles include Drupal, and Joomla.
The solution described in this blog article can be used for any rewards/pre-order, or donations based Crowdfunding campaigns and paradigms. It is great for running a single campaign, or multiple campaigns on separate pages for any new or existing WordPress website using white label technology such as Atlas. To gain the capabilities to run a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign on your WordPress website, you need to subscribe to an Atlas subscription plan. The Micro subscription plan is great to use for this purpose. Included in the subscription plans is the Sedra widget. You can use the Sedra widget to host a campaign on any web page.
There are two options for adding Crowdfunding capabilities on to your WordPress website when using the Atlas solution. First, is enabling the Orion WordPress plugin. Learn how to add the Orion WordPress plugin by reading the following article.
NOTE: To properly display the widget in its FULL WIDTH, you will need to be using a theme that can enable single column full width UI for full capabilities out of the box.
Without using a single column full width theme, the campaign UI may look slightly squished. In this case, you may have to make adjustments on the WordPress site to make the campaign UI display better.
Please note that it is recommended to read the following article to quickly set up the widget for this tutorial.
Creating a Crowdfunding campaign page on your WordPress site
Step 1: Subscribe to the Atlas subscription plan.
Step 2: Create the Crowdfunding campaign, and copy the widget code.
Step 3: Make sure you are using a single column full width theme.
For this tutorial, we are going to be using the “New Blog” theme. Follow the steps to activate a new theme.
When logged into the WordPress administrator dashboard, click on the appearance menu item, then click on the Themes option in the dropdown.
For this tutorial, we have searched for the “New Blog” theme and clicked on download, then activate.
Step 4: Create a new page, and paste the widget code.
Now that you have a theme that will allow the widget to display properly on the page, you can create a new page. Click on the pages menu item.
Then click on the new page button on the WordPress “pages” page.
Once you create a new page, fill out the title, and click on the “text” button in the top right corner of the content box. The “text” button is meant for adding HTML code to the page.
Paste widget code into the content box, save and publish the page.
Step 5: Preview the page.
That is how you can add any pre-order, rewards, and donations based Crowdfunding campaign on to your WordPress website. For a full and more detailed tutorial, you can watch the following video: