Title: Hester Core
Author: peregrinethemes
Published: <strong>March 25, 2022</strong>
Last modified: January 19, 2026

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# Hester Core

 By [peregrinethemes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peregrinethemes/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hester-core.1.0.10.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hester-core/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hester-core/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hester-core/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hester-core/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hester-core/)

## Description

Hester Core is an optional companion plugin for [Peregrine Themes](https://peregrine-themes.com)
theme. It adds additional features such as homepage sections, widgets, blocks and
a collection of pre-built websites (demos) for popular page builders and the WordPress
block editor (Gutenberg).

## Installation

#### Automatic Installation

Automatic installation is the easiest way to install Hester Core as WordPress handles
the file transfers itself. To do an automatic install of Hester Core, log in to 
your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.

In the search field type “Hester Core” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found
our plugin simply click “Install Now”. After the installation has finished, click
the “Activate Plugin” button.

#### Manual Installation

 1. Upload the “hester-core.zip” folder to your “/wp-content/plugins” directory or 
    alternatively upload the “hester-core.zip” file via the “Add New” button in WordPress
    plugins page.
 2. Activate Hester Core.

## FAQ

### I installed the plugin but nothing happened

Hester Core is a companion plugin for the [Peregrine Themes](https://peregrine-themes.com)
theme and will only work with the theme installed and activated.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Hester Core” is open source software. The following people have contributed to 
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ peregrinethemes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peregrinethemes/)

[Translate “Hester Core” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hester-core)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hester-core/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hester-core/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hester-core/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hester-core/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.10

 * Importer updated to 0.9.5.
 * Blogsy theme support added.

#### 1.0.9

 * Update call to `post_exists` to include `post_type` in the query
 * PHP 8.4 compatibility fixes.
 * Improved demo import performance.
 * Fix a bug on deserialization of untrusted input.
 * Update compatibility tested-up-to to WordPress 6.8.

#### 1.0.8

 * BlogHash theme support added.
 * Widget issue fixed.

#### 1.0.7

 * Bloglo theme support added.

#### 1.0.6

 * Theme template name added.
 * Unnecessary code remove.
 * Style issues fixed.

#### 1.0.5

 * Fixed issues.
 * Hester lite layouts default value changed.
 * Hester lite demo update.
 * Hester lite hero image changed.

#### 1.0.4

 * Language file update.

#### 1.0.3

 * Added home section order default value.

#### 1.0.2

 * Header layout default value change.
 * Slider default value change.
 * Slider style setting added.
 * Tablet mode info section top spacing set.

#### 1.0.1

 * New demo category added

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release 🚀

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.10**
 *  Last updated **3 months ago**
 *  Active installations **10,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hester-core/)
 * Tags
 * [blocks](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blocks/)[custom blocks](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-blocks/)
   [demo template](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/demo-template/)[demos](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/demos/)
   [widgets](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hester-core/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ peregrinethemes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peregrinethemes/)

## Support

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