*** SIMPLE:PRESS CHILD THEME FRAMEWORK ***

Below are some important ‘quick-start’ notes to help you install your Child Theme. For a full and detailed tutorial on how to set up a Simple:Press Child Theme please visit the comprehensive guide on our Codex at: 

http://simple-press.com/documentation/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-child-theme/

There are two ways to install your child theme.

	1	Download the desired Child Theme Framework from the download pages at http://simple-press.com/
	2	Go to the forum admin > Themes > Theme Uploader and choose the theme ZIP file you downloaded in step 1.
	3	Go to the forum admin > Themes > Available Themes - and select your new child to be the Current Theme.

This will install your new child theme framework as it was supplied. If, however, you want to change the name of the child theme - which is not mandatory but recommended - then it is easier to perform the following steps.

	1	Download the desired Child Theme Framework from the download pages at http://simple-press.com/
	2	Unzip the downloaded file on your local PC.
	3	Consult our Codex article regarding changing the name of the child theme to something unique to you. This is not an imperative but IS recommended.
	4	Using an FTP client, copy the child theme folder and its contents to the Simple:Press themes location on your server. By default this is: yourdomain/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/
	5	Go to the forum admin > Themes > Available Themes - and select your new child to be the Current Theme.

Remember that the objective of a child theme is to override it’s parent theme as little as possible so you only need to copy over the components from the parent that you wish to change.

To start the customisation please now refer to the codex article:

http://simple-press.com/documentation/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-child-theme/

Simple:Press - last updated April 2015