General Instructions:
To get started, upload both lightfast-child.zip and lightfast.zip to the wp-content/themes directory.
Activate the Lightfast Child theme from Appearance → Themes. Activating the child theme allows your parent theme to receive remote automatic updates. If the parent theme is activated, automatic updates will be disabled.
Upon activation, you'll be prompted to install the Simple Shortcodes plugin. This is our own universal plugin that will allow you to add the essential shortcodes to get the most out of Lightfast.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/smpl-shortcodes/
Once the theme and required plugins are installed, you can customize the general look and feel from Appearance → Customize.
Menu Navigation Setup:
For instructions on setting up the main navigation in Lightfast, please refer to the link below.
http://www.simplethemes.com/tutorials/help/nav-setup
Home Page Setup:
For instructions on setting up the home page in Lightfast, please refer to the link below.
http://www.simplethemes.com/tutorials/help/home-page-setup
Widgets/Sidebars
Sidebar and Footer content can be managed in the Widgets area of your WordPress dashboard located under Apppearance → Widgets. For help in setting per-page Widgets in Lightfast, please refer to the link below.
http://www.simplethemes.com/tutorials/help/dynamic-widget-tutorial
Teaser
The "Teaser" in Lightfast is the bold area located in the topmost content area of the theme. You can activate this in the Customize area of the theme or by creating a new Page with the Page template set to "Teaser Page". You can also enable a teaser inside the "Layout Builder" page template.
Layout Builder
To activate the layout builder, create a new Page with the Page template set to "Layout Builder".
Advanced Customization
Styling
Inside the Lightfast parent theme (wp-content/themes/lightfast) you'll find a /sass directory. This is the recommended method for CSS customization. If you're not comfortable with SASS, you can of course just copy the contents of style.css into the child theme as well.
Action Hooks
Many of the core parent theme functions are "hookable" while some can be completely redeclared and overriden. Please see the contents of lightfast-child/functions.php for more detailed examples.