Thread: General ? about childtheme

General ? about childtheme

Thanks to all who can help me on this.

I have installed wordpress and classipress onto my server. I am wanting to make a childtheme for classipress. My questions:
1) Do I need to have my parent classipress active or not.(I read somewhere that it should not be active if you want your childtheme to work)
2) Should I install plugins before or after creating my childtheme. Does it matter? I plan on using worpress plugins and classipress plugins.
3) I am also making a modification to classipress. Does this change the order of how I should install plugins?
Again, Thank you in advance, Angee