# Usage Instructions

## Theme Installation

Login to your WordPress administration and go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme. Click browse to select a theme.zip you downloaded, click install and then activate to start using theme.

## Content Slider

There are two parts of setting up slider, the first one is in Theme Options, and the second one is creating sticky posts.

#### First part - theme options

1. Go to Appearance / Theme Options / Slider
2. Check Enable content slider (checked - enabled)

#### Part two: Creating sticky posts

To create sticky post you can either create new post or use existing one, and make it sticky by checking "Stick this post to the front page" in the right column, like on the image below:
You also need to set image for the slider. In the right column you'll see "Featured Image".

Click on Set featured image, and image uploader will pop up. Drag your image to the uploader (or select image from file browser), and click "Set Featured Image" in the right corner below.

Now just click update or publish, and the post will appear in slider.

## Child themes

This theme is a parent theme, and all customizations should be done via child theme.

- Create a theme folder in your `/wp-content/themes` directory called `my-child`.
- After that create a `style.css` file in `/wp-content/themes/my-child` folder.
- At the top of your `style.css` file, add the informations below.

    /**
     * Theme Name: My Child
     * Theme URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
     * Description: Describe your child theme.
     * Version: 1.0
     * Author: Your Name
     * Author URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
     * Tags: Some, Tags
     * Template: ParentThemeName
     */

After that you might want to import all the styles from parent theme.

    @import url( '../ParentThemeFolderName/style.css' );

    /* Custom code goes below here. */

This is officially-supported way of modifying themes in WordPress.

## Localization / Translation

To translate theme to another language, use swt.pot file from theme/languages folder. We recommend using Poedit for this purpose. Open swt.pot using Poedit, click File / Save as and name it swt-de_DE (de_DE is for German translation, en_US for English American etc...). Off course, your site needs to be running in the same language.

## Plugins Used:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ridiculously-responsive-social-sharing-buttons/

## Support + Changing / Removing Footer Link

In order to change/remove footer link, you must purchase theme on www.simplewpthemes.com, and you'll also get access to support forum at the same time. To remove error message which is caused by editing footer link, just restore theme files via FTP.

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