If you are looking for an e-commerce platform to boost your online business? Then, OpenCart is a powerful tool for store management.

Also, a theme represents expertise in online store management. But, many customers might face errors while installing OpenCart theme because of improper caching.

At Bobcares, we often get requests from our customers to install a theme in OpenCart as part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s see how our Support Engineers install a theme in OpenCart and fix errors.

How we install a theme in OpenCart

One of the best, free and open-source eCommerce solution is OpenCart. It is an online store management system.

Also, OpenCart allows installing different types of themes based on the user’s requirement.

Here. let’s see how our Support Engineers install a theme in OpenCart.

1. Initially, we download the theme from http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension&path=1. Normally, themes files are compressed using .zip format.

2. So, we extract the files in the .zip file on the local computer.

3. We upload the extracted folder and its contents to the public_html directory.

4. Then, we log into OpenCart as the administrator.

5. On the left sidebar, we click the Extensions icon >> Themes.

6. Next, we locate the store and click the Edit icon in the Action column.

7. Also, under the General tab, in the Theme Directory list box, we select a new theme. Again, we select the Enabled option from the Status list box.

8. Finally, we click the Save button.

That’s it. The new theme is now installed and activated.

Few common errors while we Install a theme in OpenCart

At Bobcares, where we have more than a decade of expertise in managing servers, we see many customers face problems while installing a theme in OpenCart​.

Now, let’s see the major reasons for this OpenCart​ errors and how our Support Engineers fix those errors.

Compatibility problems

Many customers face problems while installing the theme on OpenCart due to conflict between the OpenCart version and the theme version.

For the proper theme installation, the OpenCart version should be compatible with the theme version.

Problems with caching

One of our customers made some changes in Twig template, common/header.twig, using Theme editor in OC 3. But, then it didn’t work. And, all template was reset to the default value.

On investigating, our Support Engineers found that the problem was related to improper caching. So, we followed the following steps to solve the problem.

1. We logged in to the OpenCart dashboard, used the blue icon on the top-right end side to reset all caches.

2. Then we navigated to extensions >> modifications >> and clicked the refresh button on the top-right end side.

Hence, the problem solved.

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Conclusion

In short, installing a theme in OpenCart is very simple. But, many customers may have errors while installing OpenCart theme because of improper caching. Today, we saw how our Support Engineers installed a theme​ in OpenCart and fixed related errors.