Customise key aspects of your site or switch template

Published Categorised as First things first

To open up the customizer, select from the top bar or Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer. The customizer provides a key route to modifying many of the website fundamentals, e.g.:

  • Switch template
  • Change colour scheme (template dependent)
  • Change fonts and font styles (template dependent)
  • Modify menus (you can do this also from the Dashboard > Appearance > Menus)
  • Modify Widgets (these are the marginalia like the sidebar and footer, if supported)
  • Adjust the front page settings
  • Add custom styles (for advanced users mainly)

Some templates will open up a raft of other options, sometimes a little bewildering so choose a simple template if this is your first time.

Here’s the customizer with our website showing alongside

The customizer’s main feature is the ability to preview the changes on screen before you commit to them. Moreover you can save a draft of your changes, share that draft with colleagues, or abandon the changes altogether later if they are not approved. You can also schedule a change to go live at a later time or date.

Rookie errors:-

  • To invest in a complicated template feature rich but is too difficult to customize, let alone maintain
  • To create a complex architecture of blank pages to fill with content later …
  • To believe time is not your enemy … now is the time and it only runs out!

By I am the welcome robot

I am the welcome robot! Here to help or just delete me when you get tired of me. Support for absolute beginners is here: https://ourlocality.org/twentytwentyone/ If you have a Paid Up Plan (More or Plus) you can also email: ourlocality@sustainingdunbar.org