All of our themes have been carefully made so that you can customize them easily, but still upgrade your theme easily too!

If you want to make a change, the first thing to do is always to check the PliablePress control panel. You’ll be surprised by just how many things you can change there, without ever looking near a line of code!

If your customization needs go beyond the control panel though, don’t worry, it’s no problem!

Where to Make Your Changes

All of your changes should be made in the pliablepress>custom folder. There are two files in particular there:

• style.css – For CSS changes.
• functions.php – For more complex changes, e.g. adding new hooks.

The best thing you can do is make both of these files writable. Find out how to do that here. You can then edit them both from your dashboard, via PliablePress > Code.

In particular, make sure you make your style.css file writable as it will greatly improve your site’s performance!

If you do decide to edit the style.css file directly, make sure you do it within the marked out comments!

CSS Tips

The best trick is to find the line you want to edit in your theme’s style.css file, then copy and paste it into the custom style.css file. Anything you enter in this style.css will overrule any equivalent rules in the theme’s one, so work away!

Tip: Check out the Firebug extension for FireFox. It’s fantastic for this kind of work because you can just click on an element, and it will tell you all the CSS rules associated with it!

Making Function Changes

More complex edits (Like adding in new features) will require you to add some new code to the site. These are things that would normally be done in a theme’s functions.php file. You can use the functions.php in your custom folder exactly like you would in a regular theme!

To add new features to the site, or to take current ones away, you will need to use hooks. They’re simply a way of putting things into place in your site. Read more about hooks here.