Title: Getting Started
Last modified: September 7, 2017

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# Getting Started

 *  Resolved [guaser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guaser/)
 * (@guaser)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-101/)
 * Hey there, thank you so very much for the hard work you’re doing in order to 
   help us not only to protect versus attacks, but what is at least as important,
   protect our product (themes / plugins) choices from competitors (few people think
   of that!).
 * I am just getting started, it’s not working very well for me and I may know why,
   but this is not the point of this current message.
 * I wanted to know if there is any tutorial or walkthrough besides the docs, because
   I don not understand if I have to really create folders and rename stylesheet
   files in order for the plugin rewrites (themes, styles etc) to connect with them
   and work?
 * Because I’m doing a simple test in renaming the theme only via the plugin, and
   theme detectors have no problem detecting the original theme.
 * Otherwise I’ve made a “full” theme rewrite (filled all fields) in order to do
   a full test on theme, and it messes all my styles etc. So that is why I am asking
   if we need to really create those folders and place stylesheets withnew names
   before telling the plugin those names…
 * I hope I made a point 😀 not easy to explain…

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Maya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdgu/)
 * (@tdgu)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-101/#post-9480922)
 * Hi,
    To better understand all plugin options, please make sure you read the documentation
   articles at [WP Hide Documentation](https://www.wp-hide.com/documentation/) There’s
   no requirements on folders / files creation or rename, everything is applied 
   dynamically through the server rewrite engine. Many WordPress detectors actually**
   use cache**, meaning if you do a change on your site and check again, it will
   just use the cached html instead the new data set. So ensure you use another 
   url (e.g. an inner page which you din’t checked) or wait some hours for the cache
   to expire. If you turned on all options for Theme tab, and the front layout brooked,
   this may be caused by the theme relative paths within css files (see [https://www.wp-hide.com/new-style-file-path-along-with-internal-relative-urls/](https://www.wp-hide.com/new-style-file-path-along-with-internal-relative-urls/)
   for more details).
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [guaser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guaser/)
 * (@guaser)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-101/#post-9481384)
 * hello tdgu,
 * Thank you very much fore your answer… I thought I understood that by “surfing”
   your docs, but what happens to me is that as soon as I start setting the style
   sheet Rewrites, my site’s frontend seems to “lose” it and therefore gets messed
   up. That is why I thought Css styles for example needed to point to real copies
   with new custom names…
 * Any idea of what is happening to me? I can’t find an answer 🙁
 * Cheers!
 *  Thread Starter [guaser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guaser/)
 * (@guaser)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-101/#post-9481387)
 * Wait… Is it possible that the plugin somehow needs to “settle in” a bit? Because
   now, apparently (really did not do anything) it seems to be suddenly effectively
   applying theme rewrites and successfully hiding it from theme detectors… ?? 🙂
 *  Plugin Contributor [Maya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tdgu/)
 * (@tdgu)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-101/#post-9481417)
 * Actually it can be your browser cache which still use previous css, making some
   of resources unavailable anymore.
    So whenever you do a change, you can try to
   clear your browser cache which expel such an issue.
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [guaser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guaser/)
 * (@guaser)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-101/#post-9482253)
 * Thanks a lot tdgu…
 * Trying to reproduce all as per this successful test in another site and again
   my styles get messed… Tried to clear browser’s, server’s, Wp’s caches (where 
   applicable) and nothing, still “messes” up my frontend. 🙁
 * Just using the Theme Rewrite Options right now, just as in the other site that
   got “magically fixed” (I had cleared everything one time and again on that one
   too when performing tweaks)…
 * Thank you
 *  Thread Starter [guaser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guaser/)
 * (@guaser)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-started-101/#post-9483432)
 * Problem solved. Apparently there was some incompatibility going on with my theme.
 * Again thank you so much for all you guys are doing, for FREE! I’ve tried another(
   very) popular WP “hider” (PAID!) and could not ever make it work decently, and
   besides requirements too complicated and beyond what my hosting provider allows
   me to do…
 * Cheers!

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