Getting started
Intro
Step 1 – Before you start
Step 2 – Theme install
Step 3 – Plugin install
Step 4 – Import demo content
Step 5 – Theme setup
Step 6 – Customize colors
Step 7 – Edit content

Intro

Welcome to the Installation & Setup Guide for your Hello Chic theme! We are SO excited that you’re here. Ready to get your new theme set up on your website? We can’t wait to see what you create — let’s get started!

In this article, we’ll introduce you to Kadence.

What is a Parent & Child Theme?

A parent theme provides the core features and functionality of your website, while a child theme builds on the parent theme and contains the custom design and settings for your specific theme.

Your Hello Chic theme is a child theme of Kadence. Kadence provides the foundation, while your Hello Chic theme adds the design and customizations you see in the demo.

Using a child theme is strongly recommended by WordPress professionals and developers, including WordPress itself, and is considered best practice when customizing a WordPress website. It is especially important because it keeps your customizations separate from the parent theme, so they are not overwritten when the parent theme is updated.

A child theme also makes your website easier to maintain, safer to update, and more flexible to customize over time. You can continue receiving important updates from the parent theme, including bug fixes, compatibility and security updates, performance improvements, SEO enhancements, and new features, while keeping your own customizations intact.

That’s why your Hello Chic theme is built as a child theme of Kadence.

What is Kadence?

Kadence is the best and most powerful WordPress theme framework available today, providing a fast, flexible, SEO-friendly, and highly customizable foundation for your website. It also includes a powerful block system that allows for endless customization possibilities, letting you customize nearly every aspect of your website with no coding required — from layouts to so much more.

Best of all, Kadence is completely free to use, so no additional purchase is required! A Pro version is available with extra features, but please note that these features are not used or shown in our theme demos.

You can learn more about Kadence on the Kadence website.

Need more help?

In addition to our Theme Install & Setup Guide, you’ll also have access to a fantastic library of tutorials in the Kadence Help Center. We highly recommend checking out their Kadence Theme and Kadence Blocks sections.