PURPLE PASTELS & ASSOCIATED CHILD THEMES

THEME OPTIONS

Collapsing sub-menus (vertical sidebar)
	Fairly self-explanatory. If the collapsing sub-menus are enabled, 	only top level Categories and Pages will be shown. Clicking on a parent Category or Page will then reveal all descendants.
	
Featured Post Image Size
	Allows you to set a custom thumbnail size for the featured images 	(See Edit Post/Edit Page). Dimensions are in pixels.
	
Featured Post Image Cropping
	When creating featured post thuumbnails from larger images, 	WordPress offers 2 cropping modes: Soft & Hard. Soft cropping 	creates images that are always in proportion. Hard cropping reduces 	images to the exact dimensions specified (which can distort some images).
	
Post Excerpt Length
	Posts with a featured image will automatically use generated excerpts 	on category & archive listing pages. Use this option to define how many 	words you want to display in these excerpts.

Pages in this section list
	All parent Pages can display their associated "page tree". Selecting "Hide" 	will remove this tree from ALL Pages.
	
Allowed Tags (comment form)
	Hide or display the list of allowed HTML tags below the Comment box. 
	
Post Numbers (a - b of x entries)
	All post listing pages can show a summary of how many posts are 	available for viewing and where the visitor is within that list of posts just below the top navigation menu.
	For example: "Displaying 1 - 10 of 17 entries."
	
Widget Titles
	All WordPress core widgets and the Login widget with this theme include an option to display a widget title'heading. Whilst this is often 	useful, 	in some circumstances (e.g. adding a banner image using the Text 	widget), these headings can be intrusive. Whilst it is possible to add a 	widget with an empty title, the empty widget heading tags that this 	generates are not ideal. Hiding widget titles via this option allows you to set proper widget headings (which may enhance SEO) but removes 	them from the graphical page display.
	
CHILD THEMES
This theme has been developed to support the creation of child themes. Wherever possible, do not customise this theme but create a child theme for your customisations instead. Customising this theme will cause you to lose all of your changes if/when you later upgrade the theme. A child theme will protect your changes but still allow you to upgrade the parent theme.

See <http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes> for further information.

There some child themes available for this theme. See <http://quirm.net/themes/> for a full list.

Bespoke/customised child themes can also be developed  for a moderate fee.

SUPPORT
As always, free support is available at <http://forum.quirm.net/>. You can also find free support at <http://wordpress.org/support/> but, due to the high traffic on the WordPress forums, I cannot guarantee that I will notice or answer your requests for assistance.

Feedback & feature requests are also welcome at <http://forum.quirm.net/>.