1. Yes, if you want to update versions or licence types, this requires manual installation.
1.2. You don't lose any data, but you should expect to lose customizations to your theme. This is why we recommend if you do make customizations, you look at creating a
child theme to lessen the work involves when upgrades are made. Not to mention, you should always back up before any such upgrade.
2. The language pack download page should indicate whether or not it is a full translation or no-admin translation file. So you'll know based on that whether or not admin pages are included.
3. As long as you're signing up via the link on our
WordPress hosting page, then it shouldn't matter which plan.
4. As per our
FAQ page:
AppThemes does not work as a standalone solution. It is a theme which runs on the free CMS blogging software, WordPress which requires a web server such as apache, a mySQL database, and PHP. If your hosting provider allows WordPress to run on it (over 95% of them do), then AppThemes should work fine. You might also need FTP access to upload the theme and admin permissions to change/create folders. This is very common for any web hosting provider. We are partners with some of the best affordable and reliable web hosting providers out there today. They are certified WordPress partners and will have no problem running our themes.
