Flothemes Plugins

With Flothemes we’re aiming to provide you with a suite of services and options for your new site. The following article gives a quick overview of the plugins we have created to use along with your Flothemes site.

You can view and download Flothemes plugins here.

Installing Plugins

See the following video on how to install your Flothemes plugins:

Flo Updater

This plugin should be added for every theme. It allows you to receive free updates for your theme, meaning that your site will always be compatible with the most recent WordPress and Web Standards.

Once installed you’ll see an update notification in your WordPress backend that looks like the following (if an update is available):

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The following article theme updates will explain more details on using the Flo Updater plugin.

Flo Launch

Flo Launch – the best way to test drive and Launch your new theme. With Flo Launch you can set up a test environment in your WordPress installation, install you new theme and set it up, all whilst your current site remains live for your users. Want to learn more? Read how to use Flo Launch here.

Flo Forms

For Flothemes users we have created a custom contact form, thats drag and drop, and super simple to use. We wanted to develop a contact form offering of our own, to help prevent issues with email sending issues that other contact forms have had.

Flo Forms aims to solve this issue. We’ve also added a submissions area, and a settings area that will allow your site to send you a reminder to check your entries if you’ve not read them.

The following article explains how to install and use Flo Forms.

You can download our new plugin on your plugins page here.

Flo Shortcodes

Need a way to build your pages more creatively? Flo Shortcodes is a powerful plugin that will give you greater flexibility with your theme, it gives your various options including adding short-code for post types (blog, galleries and videos if available), image and text, columns, team member, box, alerts, buttons, tabs, toggles, and responsive video. You can see them in action on one of our themes here.

Once the plugin is activated, it will be available in all pages in the content area section, using visual mode:

Read more about Flo Short-codes here.

Flo Instagram

Build your social following. Our Flo Instagram his plugin will allow you to add Instagram feeds to your widget areas, as well as an Instagram feed and or button to any pages. Read more about this plugin here.