How to install theme after magento is prepared?

If you already had a Magento store and want to apply the theme, follow the instruction below. To install the theme you only need to upload all the theme files on your server and then enable the theme in the admin panel. But to avoid unexpected problems after installation, your Magento should be prepared first.

2.1. Prepare Your Magento

Step 1: Before you install, make sure your store is disabled (no page can be refreshed during the installation process). To do this you can create a simple empty file named maintenance.flag in your Magento’s root directory. Magento will be offline after that. You can remove the file after you finish.

Magento’s root directory is place you can find basic files of Magento, such as: index.php and get.php, api.php.
IMPORTANT: Creating backup before installing any themes or extensions in Magento is extremely important, especially if you are working on a live store. Backup Magento files and the store database

Step 2: Disable compilation mode in System > Tools > Compilation. You can enable this mode again after finishing installation

Step 3: Disable all cache in your Magento

IMPORTANT: When developing your Magento store, in order to be able to see changes immediately, you should completely disable the cache. You can enable it after you finish configuring your store
  1. Magento Cache. Please read more details in : this link
  2. Full Page cache and caching modules for Magento. Please read more details in : this link
  3. Any additional cache on your server, PHP cache engines, APC, etc Please read more details in : this link
  4. Disable Merge JavaScript Files and CSS Files in backend System > Configuration > Developer > JavaScript Settings, CSS Settings Please read more details in : this link

2.2. Installing Theme after Magento is prepared

This procedure doesn’t change core files of Magento

Step 1: Extracting file theme package on your computer and copy all files to your Magento folder. The theme folder after extracting, it should contain folders such as: app, js, skin.

Step 2: Using your FTP client upload all folders and files to your Magento’s root directory Magento already contains the same directories – do not remove those directories. (You can upload your files to server by using Filezilla.) Directories extracted from theme package have to be merged with existing directories of Magento. If your system asks you whether you want to merge directories, you can confirm that you want to merge those directories.

Step 3: Set correct file permissions for all css theme files which you uploaded to your server.

Step 4: Beginning install theme. You go to admin panel EMThemes > EMThemes Manager > EM0132 SuperTheme Settings, click on INSTALL THEME :

Step 5: Active our theme. Please read more details at : this link

Step 6: Set Homepage. Please read more details at : this link

Step 7: Flush Magento cache : this link

To activate and use layout which you like, you please go to content of each theme below:

  • Supermarket – Sidebar
  • Supermarket Fullwidth
  • Best Deals
  • Deal and Group
  • Supermarket Clean
  • Supermarket Blue
  • Supermarket Pearl
  • Supermarket B-W