How to use the optional Thrinacia Atlas WordPress Crowdfunding plugin on a Pantheon hosted website

Do you want to add Crowdfunding capabilities on your WordPress website hosted by Pantheon? 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 Pantheon 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 Pantheon.

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 Pantheon to create and host the WordPress website

Either create or log into your Pantheon account. Click on the grey “Create New Site” button.

Add the URL that you want.

Next, choose to deploy a WordPress website

Wait for the website to be deployed.

Click on the Yellow WordPress button, and follow the instructions for creating your new WordPress website.

Fill out the following to deploy a new WordPress website.

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 SFTP and add the app_local.js file

To find the SFTP information, log into pantheon, and click on the website/project. Click on the “Connection Info” button to find the SFTP credentials.

Enter the credentials into your SFTP program. For this demo, we are using FileZilla.

You want to add the app_local.js file into the Angular folder. To find the Angular folder, click on the following directories code/wp-content/plugins/thrinacia-atlas-crowdfunding/angular. In this directory, you will see the angular folder. Drag and drop the app_local.js file into the angular folder.

Step 7. Setting up optional pre-rendering for crawling and indexing