Installation

Visual CMS 4.0 is included in OXID eShop Professional Edition/Enterprise Edition 7.

System requirements

The following themes are supported for this version:

APEX Theme with Twig Template Engine
Wave Theme with Smarty Template Engine

Hint

The Wave Theme is no longer part of the OXID 7 compilation, but can be installed later. If this is used, the “Visual CMS Smarty support” module must also be installed and activated. See: Installation Visual CMS Smarty support module.

New installation

Visual CMS is installed automatically in case of OXID eShop default installation.
Navigate in the OXID eShop administration area to Extensions ‣ Modules.
Activate the module Visual CMS

Installation Visual CMS Smarty Support Module

open a shell and change to the root directory of the eShop (where the composer.json file is located).

Example:
```
cd /var/www/oxideshop
```

Execute the following command:

composer require ddoe/visualcms-smarty-module

Activate the module in the admin area under Extensions ‣ Modules.

Alternatively, to activate the module in the main store, run the following command:
```
./vendor/bin/oe-console oe:module:activate ddoevisualcmssmarty
```
To specify in which subshop the module will be activated, replace [SHOP-ID] with the number of the desired store:
```
./vendor/bin/oe-console --shop-id=[SHOP-ID] oe:module:activate ddoevisualcmssmarty
```
Hint

If you installed Community Edition as root package and upgraded to Professional or Enterprise Edition, the command to OXID console is as follows: ./bin/oe-console

Hint

Additional information about the module can also be found in the README of the module.

Update

Updates are done automatically with every OXID eShop update via Composer.