Quick Start

Get your crowdfunding site up and running in a few minutes.

1. Configure required pages

Go to Ignition → Settings in your WordPress admin. The plugin needs a few pages to work, each hosting a specific block:

• Login / Register Page — where visitors sign in or create an account.
• Dashboard Page — the frontend dashboard where backers track pledges and manage their account. It also hosts the campaign wizard (for creating and editing campaigns) and a campaign’s management view.
• Checkout Page — where backers review and confirm their pledges.

An optional Terms & Conditions Page adds an acceptance checkbox to checkout and registration.

For each page you can either click Create Page to auto-generate it with the correct block inserted, or select an existing page that already contains the block or shortcode.

Permalinks

Ignition Crowdfunding works with any WordPress permalink structure, including “Plain” — campaign URLs always resolve correctly. For cleaner, more shareable, and more SEO-friendly campaign links, set Settings → Permalinks to anything other than “Plain” (e.g. “Post name”). If your site is on “Plain” permalinks, campaign URLs will look like /?igcf_campaign=my-campaign instead of /campaign/my-campaign/ — both work identically.

2. Set up currency and payments

Still in Settings:

• Currency — select the currency for your site (default: USD).
• Suggested amounts — add up to six preset amounts that appear as quick-select chips on the pledge form (e.g., 10, 25, 50, 100). You can also set minimum and maximum pledge amounts.
• Offline payment instructions — on the Payments tab, open the Offline gateway and write the instructions backers see after pledging. Use placeholders like {amount}, {campaign_name}, and {pledge_id} to personalize.

3. Create a campaign

Campaigns are authored by staff from the frontend wizard:

1. In wp-admin, go to Ignition → Campaigns and click Add New — this opens the campaign form.
2. Fill in the campaign details: title, description, goal, funding model, dates, and a featured image.
3. Click Publish Campaign.

With no start date (or a past one), the campaign goes live immediately; with a future start date, it enters Preview until then. See Creating a Campaign for every field.

4. View your campaign

Once published, the campaign appears on:

• the campaign archive at /campaign/ (or your configured archive slug), and
• its own single campaign page at /campaign/{slug}/.

5. Test a pledge

1. Visit your campaign’s single page (as a different user or in another browser).
2. Select a suggested amount or enter a custom amount in the pledge form.
3. Click Pledge — you’ll be taken to the Checkout page.
4. Review the pledge details and click Confirm Pledge.
5. The confirmation screen displays your offline payment instructions.

The pledge now appears in the backer’s Pledges tab on the dashboard, and in the campaign’s management view.

Accepting campaigns from outside creators

This walkthrough covers direct mode — your organization running its own campaigns. To let independent creators sign themselves up, run campaigns entirely from the frontend, and submit them for approval, add the Ignition Platform Mode add-on.

Next steps

• Creating a Campaign — all form fields and options.
• Managing a campaign — the per-campaign management view.
• Campaign Lifecycle — how campaigns progress through statuses.
• Pledging — how the pledge form, checkout, and payment instructions work.
• Backer Dashboard — how backers track and manage pledges.
• User Roles — what each role can do.