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Getting Started With Essential Toolkit

Whether you’re running an agency, working freelance, or just starting out in web design, the Essential Toolkit has you covered. 

Essential Toolkit provides premium versions of powerful plugins such as Astra Pro, Ultimate Addons for Elementor, Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder, Spectra Pro, and more to make website creation quick and easy. 

This guide will help you get started with the Essential Toolkit, explaining what’s included and how it can benefit you.

Let’s begin!

Purchasing Essential Toolkit

You’ve probably already purchased the Essential Toolkit. If not, you can buy it from here.

If you faced any issues during the purchase, please contact our support team at [email protected].

Downloading Your Plugins

After the purchase, you’ll receive an email with login credentials and a link to our store. Use these credentials to login to the store.

Visit this store and access all of your purchased plugins at Account > Downloads.

Simply click on the desired plugins to download its zip file. You can download one or all of them based on your preference. 

We are using Astra Pro as an example, but you can choose any plugin from the Essential Toolkit.

Installing Plugins on Your Website

Now that you have downloaded the zip file, it’s time to install and activate it on your website. 

Navigate to your WordPress dashboard and click on Plugins > Add New Plugin > Upload Plugin

Select the downloaded zip file from your device and click on Install Now. Once installed, click on the Activate Plugin button to activate this plugin.

Note: To use the premium versions of these plugins, you must also have their base plugins installed on your WordPress dashboard. 

For example, to use Astra Pro, you’ll need to have the Astra theme installed.

WordPress will usually prompt you to install these base plugins after downloading their premium versions.

Activating Your License Key

Now that you’ve installed the plugin, it’s time to activate its license key.

A license key is important as it grants you access to updates, support, and additional features for the plugin, ensuring its optimal performance and security on your website.

Navigate to the Account > Licenses section from our store.

Here, you’ll find all the license keys for the plugins included in the Essential Toolkit. Copy the one you need, in our example, it’s Astra Pro.

Navigate to Astra > Dashboard in your WordPress dashboard and paste this key.

The license key is now activated on your website. You can confirm this by clicking on the Manage Sites button on the Licenses page.

Here, you can see how many websites your plugin is active on. You can also deactivate the plugins directly from this page, making management easier. 

If you need help activating the license for each plugin on your WordPress dashboard, check out these docs.

What’s Included In Essential Toolkit

For detailed information on what’s included in the Essential Toolkit, please refer to the section below. Here’s a quick overview:

Astra Pro

The first and most important thing you need to create a website is a theme, and you get the premium version of the best WordPress theme for free with Essential Toolkit – Astra Pro!

Astra Pro is a standalone product valued which is sold for $49/year. However, with the Essential Toolkit, you get it for free.

With Astra Pro, you can do a lot of things like:

  • Customization controls for headers, footers, sidebars, menus, and more.
  • Ready-made layouts for your blog, portfolio, and shop pages, with the flexibility to assign different layouts to various post listings.
  • For WooCommerce users, Astra Pro offers versatile shop and single-product layouts, along with stunning checkout forms for an exceptional customer experience that drives sales.
Getting Started With Essential Toolkit

The best thing about Astra is that it works perfectly with WordPress plugins like Elementor, Gutenberg, WooCommerce, Spectra, LearnDash, and others so you can use it while building any kind of website.

Here is a getting started article.

Ultimate Addons for Elementor

Ultimate Addons for Elementor is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to enhance the capabilities of the Elementor Page Builder.

Some key features of Ultimate Addons for Elementor include:

50+ Elementor Widgets

Ultimate Addons enriches the Elementor experience by introducing more than 50 new widgets. These widgets cover a wide range of elements, allowing users to add various components to their web pages with ease.

200+ Section Blocks

Ultimate Addons for Elementor offers you a pre-designed section to serve as building blocks for your website, making it easier to create diverse layouts and structures.

Cross-Site Copy Paste

The cross-site copy-paste functionality simplifies the process of duplicating and transferring styles between different pages or websites built with Elementor. This speeds up the design process.

WooCommerce Widgets

Catering to e-commerce needs, it also includes specialized widgets for WooCommerce. These widgets help you to add and customize elements related to online shopping, enhancing the visual appeal and functionality of the website.

RTL Support

You also get Right-to-Left (RTL) language support, ensuring compatibility for websites that use languages written from right to left. This feature helps maintain a consistent and user-friendly design for diverse linguistic audiences.

And you can white label Ultimate Addons for Elementor easily if you ever need it.

Here are articles to get started with Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder and Ultimate Addons for Elementor.

Elementor – Premium Starter Templates

With Premium Starter Templates, you get access to more than 145 premium website templates that are created using Elementor page builder + Ultimate Addons for Elementor and are highly customizable.

These templates are suitable for all kinds of websites like education, blogging, portfolios, eCommerce, and more. They are complete websites, not just single pages, including a home page, services page, contact page, and others.

Spectra Pro – Page Builder

If you build websites using the Gutenberg editor, you will love Spectra Pro.

Spectra is a visual page builder built on top of the default block editor, Gutenberg. With Spectra, you can build ultra-fast websites, even if you are a complete beginner.

With the Essential toolkit, you get the pro version of Spectra that includes custom blocks such as Sliders, Image Gallery, Instagram Feed, User Login & Registration Form, Modal, and many more.

Along with blocks, you get access to premium features like Popup Builder, Loop Builder, and Dynamic Content.

Here is the article to get started with Spectra.

Spectra – Premium Starter Templates

Spectra – Premium Starter Templates is a growing library of more than 100 website templates that are built using the Astra theme and Spectra page builder.

These websites are suitable for any business and can help your website go live in no time after some customizations.

Not only websites, but you also get block patterns and wireframes built using Spectra so you can create designs for your needs.

You can download the Premium starter template from our store and install it just like any other plugin.

Additionally, you can import the site of your choice to get started.

Priority Support

Lastly, with the Essential Toolkit, you receive our priority attention. This means we promptly address your requests and messages, assisting you with any issues you may face with our products.

That concludes everything that you get into the Essential toolkit!

In essence, Essential Toolkit brings you a great set of products that can help you awesome websites, whether you run an agency, freelancer, or are a beginner who’s getting started with building websites.

But if you’re still in doubt and need more information, please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help.

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