Enabling and Disabling the Theme Designer
Accessing all of your options for theme development and management
Managing and modifying *themes* requires accessing enabling the *Theme Designer*.
Navigate to the Theme tab in the Theme Press Control Panel
Access the Theme Press Control Panel and select the Theme tab.1
Toggle the Theme Designer On or Off
Use the On/Off buttons to enable/disable this menu.
[[screenshot of the top portion of the Theme Designer]]
If you are turning the Theme Designer on, you will see a modal window with a warning message about how enabling these features will increase the performance load on the server.2 Review the message and click the "I understand..." checkbox to continue.
1Only authorized users may access the Theme Designer. See *Controlling Design Tab Access* for more info.
Theme Press recalculates look-and-feel information every time a change is made in the Theme Designer (and also when responding to a *browser force-reload*).
These recalculations/re-renderings add to the performance load on the server.
For this reason, we recommend that you only design themes in a test or development environment, rather than in a production environment.
