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  • January 27, 2016 at 11:46 am #572761
    Gunnarshaug

    I am going to set up my first website (for my company), and already I am overwhelmed :-)

    I have started to look for tutorials and tips online. I have spent hours, if not days, doing research and I am still really confused where to start. There are so many different advices and approaches, it’s like a jungle, I never seem to be able to find the answers that I need.

    From what I can understand, it seems that using a child theme is the way to go (for customization). What I don’t understand, is that almost every tutorial I find use the WP dashboard for changes/ customizations. That leads to my first question:
    1. Do I need to use a child theme for every customization, or can I use WP dashboard for some, and the child theme for the rest?

    My second question:
    2. My plan is to import demo/dummy data, and build my site based on that. Is this a good approach, or is it the best way to build from scratch?

    January 27, 2016 at 7:04 pm #573183
    Yigit

    Hey Gunnarshaug!

    Try to stay calm. Once you get used to using Advanced Layout Builder you will make wonders in no time :)

    1- We recommend using a child theme in general but if you are not going to make changes on theme files and the customization you are going to make is mostly CSS, you do not really need to use a child theme. You can add your custom CSS codes in Enfold theme options > General Styling > Quick CSS field.

    2- It might be easier for you to edit elements on an existing page instead of creating a new one from scratch especially if there is a Enfold demo that looks similar to the layout you are going for.

    If you have any other questions, please feel free to post them as well :)

    Best regards,
    Yigit

    January 28, 2016 at 3:48 pm #573788
    Gunnarshaug

    Thank you for answering :-)

    But still, I hope you can clarify a couple of more things for me before I get started:

    By basing my site on a demo, I guess that I will be doing much of this:
    – deleting menu items
    – sorting menu
    – deleting pages

    Are all these the type of changes that I can do in WP dashboard (and dont need to use custom css or edit function files to do)?

    I have read that if i want to make changes to function files, I need to use a child theme. Naturally I dont really understand what a function file is yet :-) …but what are typical kind of changes that I would need to do in a function file?

    January 28, 2016 at 4:06 pm #573802
    Yigit

    Hi!

    Yes, you can go to Pages > All Pages and trash the pages you would like to remove ( please do not forget to go to trash to permanently delete them ), you can remove posts in Posts > All Posts the same way and you can remove menu items in Appearance > Menus. All can be done in WordPress dashboard :)

    Please see code snippets on Enfold documentation here – http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/code-snippets/. There are custom CSS ones which are update safe and there are functions that requires adding custom code to functions.php file. These are the ones that would be overwritten when you update the theme.

    Cheers!
    Yigit

    January 28, 2016 at 4:08 pm #573803
    Gunnarshaug

    Great, thank you for all your help :-)

    January 28, 2016 at 4:13 pm #573810
    Yigit

    Hi!

    You are welcome!
    For your information, you can take a look at Enfold documentation here – http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/
    And if there are features that you wish Enfold had, you can request them and vote the requested ones here – https://kriesi.at/support/enfold-feature-requests/
    For any other questions or issues, feel free to post them here on the forum and we will gladly try to help you :)

    Best regards,
    Yigit

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