Even if you’re new to WordPress, you probably know that it’s built around the principle of inclusivity: the Internet is for everyone and everyone should be able to make a website whether they have any coding knowledge. With WordPress this is true.
To help non-coders find ways to build a website, WordPress uses ready-made layouts called themes. The design and production of premium themes is an industry we are proudly a part of, but there is also no shortage of free themes to choose from. However, a theme is just scaffolding. A single theme can be used for thousands of websites, and each website made with it can be completely unique. That’s what the WordPress theme customizer is for.
This WordPress theme customizer, a set of tools that anyone can use for easily fine-tuning and tweaking the look and feel of a WordPress website.
Here’s what we’ll talk about:
WordPress theme customizer A default feature of WordPress. If you have completed a WordPress installation, you have also installed the customizer. And while you can use it to customize absolutely any theme, some add new features and options to the customizer, including entirely new panels: your results may vary, but each theme’s customizer will likely have all the basic options available. You can access the WordPress theme customizer by going to: Appearance/Customize From your WordPress dashboard.
The main functions of the customizer have a lot to do with it. how your website appears to your visitors: colors and images, widgets, menus and icons: all of these can be accessed and modified using the WordPress customizer. Moreover, this is where you can add CSS or cascading style sheets to your website. These are bits of code that are mainly related to the look of your website, but have other functions as well.
In this ultimate guide, we will go over all these options using the latest WordPress default theme: Twenty Twenty One. When you navigate to the customizer using your WordPress dashboard, you will see that it is made up of a number of sections. menu on the left. You may also see: preview of your website on the right from him. This is where you can review the changes you’ve made in real time.
You can choose which element or function of your theme you want to customize. Clicking on the menu on the left. An element of edit (pencil) icon Besides, you can click on that item to edit it instead of finding it from the menu.
At the top of the menu, Publish button. If you have made any changes to your website using the customizer, these changes will not be immediately visible to your visitors unless you make them. Publish to them. If there are some changes that need to be saved, the button will be blue and read. Publish. If all your changes are published, the button will be grayed out and read Posted in.
Further down you will see the title of the website you have customized – in our case, Bridge – and the active theme you can see Twenty Twenty One. This is also where you can install a WordPress theme if you want something other than the free – fully functional – default theme.
There are many options, and most of them are very well-explained, meaning even a new user will find their way around with relative ease. However, for convenience, we will examine the menu options one by one.
by clicking on Site ID section will reveal some basic options regarding some snapshots you can make on your website.
two text fields, Site Title and slogan. You can search your site as you want and use the slogan you want. You can leave both fields blank or uncheck them. View Site Title and Tag Line box if you don’t want to use them. WordPress’s default slogan is is Just another WordPress siteand we didn’t change that for this show.
This is where you can also manage some key elements of your website’s visual identity: Logo and Site Icon. by clicking on Select the logo/site icon it will take you to your Media Library, where you can select an image or upload one. The logo may or may not appear anywhere on your website – not ours – but the site icon (or favicon) will appear in browser tabs, bookmark bars, and mobile apps. Current recommended size: 512×512 pixel.
If you don’t already have a site icon, remember that there are a number of site icon generators for WordPress you can use.
When you click on this section, background color control. From here, you can choose your website’s background color from the picker or by entering the hex code.
This Dark Mode support When the checkbox is checked, it will automatically optimize your website’s colors when your visitors use dark mode to view your website.
If you don’t want a monochrome background for your website, background image panel is where you can add or upload a background image from your Medial Library. When you do, you’ll find display settings you can use for the various effects you want to achieve.
If you decide to add a background image, we have provided very detailed information about your options and current settings.
In menus panel, you can create menus and control their behavior and placement on your website. This is where you can create new menus by clicking on it. Create New Menu button.
Clicking on any menu you might have on your website will reveal the items your visitors see when they access the menu. You can do it too reorder and Add Item from this area to each of these menus.
you can use Menu Locations options to control where the menu appears, and Menu options Checkbox to automatically add new pages to a specific menu. This is useful when you want to allow your visitors to easily access your most important pages without having to manually add them to a menu.
by clicking on Create New Menu button will take you to a screen where you have to name your menu and place it in a selected menu area of your website (or choose not to, if you want to use it in a public widget area). After naming your menu, Next here it will let you add items to it.
Finally, by clicking on View All Locations The menus section allows you to place your menus in the positions provided by your theme. Menus can be found in menu locations or widget areas, but this panel only gives you access to theme-defined menu locations.
by clicking on widgets panel gives you access to the widget areas your theme uses. The number and layout of your widget areas will depend on the theme you are using.
Clicking on any widget area (single sub information field in our case) will allow you to Add Widgets to the area in question. by clicking Add Widgets button will show you a searchable list of available widgets.
Yours Home page It is usually the first part of your website that a visitor will see. You can set it to show your latest posts or set it as a static page, in which case you will need another page for your posts.
This Quote Settings The panel is about the behavior of the main body of your posts on your post pages, including your Home Page. is adjusted summarywill display a keep reading link for your posts. if set to Full textwill show all your posts.
Finally, we have Additional CSS panel. CSS stands for cascading style sheets and is basically the code for changing the visual style of your website, but it can have other uses as well.
The main box is where you add your code. CSS has literally an unlimited number of functions. We’ve used this before to change line and paragraph spacing, disable text selection, indent paragraphs, change font size, and various other aesthetic and utilitarian functions.
As a result
As you can see, it’s no exaggeration to say that WordPress comes with almost unlimited options without having to pay for a single piece of software. But even among the endless options we find common functionality and that’s what the WordPress Theme Customizer is for. Simply install WordPress and the theme of your choice and start building a website from scratch and fine-tuning it until it’s just like that.
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