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Kit manuals
Everything about running your website with a Gradespace kit, step by step, with the names you see on screen. No technical knowledge needed.
Choose your kit
Each manual has your kit’s own chapters and the shared ones, in the order you need them.
- Clinic manualClinics and opticiansServices, online booking, patient records.26 chapters · version 1.0.1
- Salon manualSalons, barbers and spasStylist calendars, booking, deposits, vouchers.25 chapters · version 1.0.1
- Music manualMusic schools and tutorsTutors, lesson booking, events and gallery.24 chapters · version 1.0.1
- Tutor manualTutoring centres and independent tutorsTutor profiles, lesson booking, parents and terms.25 chapters · version 1.0.1
- Driving manualDriving schools and instructorsInstructors, postcode areas, lesson booking, tests.27 chapters · version 1.0.1
- Church manualChurches with one or many congregationsSermons from YouTube, events, plan a visit.25 chapters · version 1.0.1
- Charity manualCharities and community organisationsCampaigns, donate buttons, volunteers and shifts.24 chapters · version 1.0.1
- Venue manualWedding, event and meeting venuesSpaces, a date diary, holds, viewings, deposits.26 chapters · version 1.0.1
- Trades manualBuilders, plumbers, electricians and other tradesPrice guides, town pages, quote requests, pipeline.23 chapters · version 1.0.1
- Group manualGroups of businesses under one ownerEvery business, enquiries routed, client area.25 chapters · version 1.0.1
The same for every kit
Buying, installing, the setup wizard, your look, staff, privacy, backups and getting help. These chapters are in every kit’s manual too.
- Buying and your licenceThe Starter, Pro and Agency tiers, buying a kit, the licence key email, your licences page on thegradespace.com, and moving or upgrading a licence.
- Before you installWhat your website and hosting need for a Gradespace kit, how to check them, and why to take a backup and use a test copy first.
- Installing your kitInstalling Gradespace Core, then your kit's plugin, then your kit's theme from their .zip files, adding your licence key, and how updates arrive.
- The setup wizardHow the setup wizard works in every kit: each step, the starter pages and menu, sample photos, legal pages, and how to run it again.
- Your look: design, colours, logo, menus and footerChoosing a design and colour palette in Site Settings → Design & colours, previewing it, keeping the menu at the top when scrolling, adding your logo, and changing the menu and the footer.
- Pages, posts and picturesEditing pages in the WordPress block editor, starting a page from your kit's ready-made layouts and sections, writing blog posts, and adding and replacing pictures in the media library.
- Staff accounts and signing inGiving each member of staff their own account, the staff roles each kit comes with, choosing what each role can do (Pro), and the staff sign-in page.
- Privacy, cookies and emailsThe cookie banner and cookie settings, your starter terms, privacy and cookie policies, requests for people's data, the website's branded emails, test emails and the email log (Pro).
- Backups and updatesWhat to back up and how often, and how to install updates to Gradespace Core, your kit's plugin and its theme safely.
- Troubleshooting and supportFixes for the problems people meet most often: licence messages, installing, the setup wizard, pages not found, emails, signing in, the design and the cookie banner, and how to get help.