noobish question about installing TP on SMF custom Theme

[miraris_ic]

Hey.. i know this is really noobish but can someone give me some tips on how to get TP to run properly with a SMF custom theme... the theme im using is "as new damage" and any information on how to modify the scripts would be greatly welcome..

regards

Miraris

[IchBin]

If you search you will see that theme has already been converted to work on TP.

[G6Cad]

And TP ALWAYS installed to the DEFAULT smf Core theme, All other themes must be as ichbin said, converted to work with the new setup (smf/tp)

[forum host]

Hello folks. Frustrated newboob here.

I have downloaded the TP package/folder to my desktop.

I have a folder on my desktop named "TP_0983 Folder"

What do I upload and what needs to be altered? The directions are frustrating as they say upload. Upload what? To where?

Do I create a new folder on  my server and upload into that? If I upload the files in the TP folder to my smf folder won't they overwrite them?

a real basic WTF101 would be greatly appreciated

thanks ahead of time

[forum host]

I forgot to add a few things...Sorry.

I have SMF 1.1.4 up and running. No problemo.

I wanted to use the shout box mod and I read somewhere that I needed to have TP installed for the shout box to be what I want...a tiny box on the side

[IchBin]

TinyPortal is a mod. Thus it is installed like a mod in the SMF admin panel. For more information on that read the docs at the simplemachines.org site. There's also a short tutorial in the docs section of this site.
As for the shoutbox, yes if you want it in a small box you'll need to use TP's shoutbox and not the shoutbox mod from SMF.

[forum host]

Read the docs at smf..thanks.

TP's shout box. Where is a link to that one?

[IchBin]

Its part of the TinyPortal install. Included in it.

[forum host]

Its part of the TinyPortal install. Included in it.

Thank you. I see I will be busy. Does the search ever end?

[G6Cad]

Thank you. I see I will be busy. Does the search ever end?

For your questions posted here yes, as soon as you have installd TP mod through your package manager like any other mod.

Then I feel we are going to get a whole lot of other questions from you hahaha.
Just make sure you install TP through the package manager to your DEFAULT SMF CORE theme with the forum set to use English language.

The blocks and shoutbox will show directly on your frontpage after you have installed TP. It's nothing you need to add or find or manually edit in, it's there from start.