I have now deactivated this in the db.
And have retried, it dies with http 500 every time…which means you have no wp admin/login/site etc
Suspect this needs checking
And due to this - this video Setup front/home page is basically useless.
A video of how the site is set up to look like the demo would be useful
Following up…also without installing the companion, the shapely widgets do not appear.
Which means without the companion plugin, this theme is completely useless, as you cannot customize the homepage at all.
Following up - tried to follow the sticky thread Shapely Demo Content
Result import widget
Homepage
shapely_home_parallax We Change Everything WordPress Site does not support widget
shapely_home_parallax SEO Friendly Site does not support widget
shapely_home_parallax Portfolio Section Site does not support widget
shapely_home_parallax Small Parallax Section Site does not support widget
shapely_home_parallax Limitless Options Site does not support widget
shapely_home_portfolio Our Latest Projects Site does not support widget
shapely_home_testimonial What Our Customers Say Site does not support widget
shapely_home_clients Our Partners Site does not support widget
shapely_home_cfa Do you like this awesome WordPress theme? Site does not support widget
Loosing interest in this theme unfortunately
Hey there,
Hope you’re doing well today
My apologies for the late reply, so sorry about the issues you’ve been having
What version of PHP are you running? I’ve been checking on this issue and it seems the companion plugin doesn’t work well with PHP versions below 5.6.
Kindly attempt updating your PHP and see if that solves the problem.
I look forward to your reply 
Best Regards,
Support
ok good one
thanks
have checked and can see a really old version of PHP Version 5.3.29
Apologize…did not realize that it was this old
…trouble with using cheap hosts
Will see what I can do and let you know
Now updated to 7.1.3 and have the companion bit activated.
Will carry on with this
Apologies for this, but would recommend that just for info that you include this info somewhere
Activate - the I want my site to look like the demo and…
is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500
The moment I activate the plugin - it kills everything.
Have to over the db delete in options “shapely-companion/shapely-companion.php”;