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Installation Authority v1.2.0+ Updated

Installing Authority

Install Authority from authority.zip: components, licence, brand, starter site, integrations and AMP, step by step.

Check the system requirements first. Your download is one installable file, authority.zip — upload it as it is.

Steps

  1. Upload the theme. Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme, choose authority.zip, click Install Now. The file is about 7 MB, so the upload limit must be at least 8 MB.
  2. Activate the theme. WordPress opens Authority → Setup.
  3. System check. Fix anything marked Action needed — most often, set permalinks to “Post name”.
  4. Install Required Components. The installer verifies each bundled package, installs and activates it in dependency order. If one fails, fix the cause and click Retry.
  5. Activate your licence on Platform → License. See Licence activation.
  6. Brand — site name, logo, brand preset.
  7. Starter site (optional, staging only). See Starter Sites.
  8. Integrations — AI and search providers and SEO ownership. The product never ships provider credentials.
  9. AMP (optional). See AMP for mobile visitors.
  10. Finish and verify, then work through the post-install checklist in the product docs: cron, the nginx rule below, Site Health, legal pages and roles.

From the command line:

wp theme install authority.zip --activate
# then in wp-admin: Authority → Setup → Install Required Components

nginx only: private evidence files

location ~* ^/wp-content/uploads/ap-evidence-private/ {
    deny all;
    return 404;
}

Apache and IIS honour the deny files the product writes into that directory.