1. Installation
Install like any other WordPress theme. Download Installation Guide for further info.
2. Theme Settings
Go to “Appearance” > Theme Settings”.
Click yourself through the several options to customize the theme to your needs. If you think an option is not described easy enough or should be done else, please give us feedback, we’d love to improve it!
3. Page Templates, Shortcodes and more
When creating the posts and pages, you can use many other features like page templates, listing your latest posts, using a slideshow, or nice shortcodes. Just in case you’d like to do more…
How to use them? There are demo sites with many examples and explanations of all features:
Free version demo: http://www.custom-community.themekraft.com/
Pro version demo: http://custom-community-pro.themekraft.com
Browse through the pages to get an overview and see how each of the features work and to get some inspiration and tips for tweaking.
And it will probably save you some time to have a quick look in the CC Knowledge Base, for example for topics like creating your custom homepage and listing your latest posts… :)
4. Customizing more…
If you are about to customize more and change or add code, please read about changing theme files and create a child theme for your purposes. That’s the easy, clean and hassle-free way!
5. Get some further inspiration
Take a quick tour through our showcase and see what others made with Custom Community!
http://themekraft.com/custom-community/showcase/
Don’t forget to show off your new creation to the community and post your site to our showcase!
In case you used BuddyPress Template Packs before: you won’t need them as this is already a BuddyPress ready theme.
For setting up BuddyPress or General BuddyPress support requests please check out the free support forums at buddypress.org, they are nice folks! buddypress.org
For general questions on WordPress we recommend you to visit the free support forums of wordpress.org
For all other theme related topics have a look in our Knowledge Base
http://support.themekraft.com/entries/21638203-changing-theme-files
…or create us a support ticket here:
http://support.themekraft.com
* Login with your themekraft username and password and click the button “NEW” on the top right of the menu to create new support tickets. *
We hope that was helpful, if you miss something, please let us know. Enjoy it!