{"id":389,"date":"2022-09-24T10:41:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/?p=389"},"modified":"2022-09-25T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T09:15:53","slug":"customise-key-aspects-of-your-site-or-switch-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/customise-key-aspects-of-your-site-or-switch-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Customise key aspects of your site or switch template"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-purple-background-color has-background\">To open up the customizer, select from the top bar or Dashboard &gt; Appearance &gt; Customizer. The customizer provides a key route to modifying many of the website fundamentals, e.g.: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Switch template<\/li><li>Change colour scheme (template dependent)<\/li><li>Change fonts and font styles (template dependent)<\/li><li>Modify menus (you can do this also from the Dashboard &gt; Appearance &gt; Menus)<\/li><li>Modify Widgets (these are the marginalia like the sidebar and footer, if supported)<\/li><li>Adjust the front page settings<\/li><li>Add custom styles (for advanced users mainly)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/09\/image-13-1024x526.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/09\/image-13-1024x526.png 1024w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/09\/image-13-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/09\/image-13-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/09\/image-13-1536x790.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/09\/image-13-2048x1053.png 2048w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/09\/image-13-1568x806.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Here&#8217;s the customizer with our website showing alongside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The customizer&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8e7d99e5b716346eeda610182b59815d\" style=\"background-color:#121c1c;color:#fffdc7;grid-template-columns:auto 60%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0244-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0244-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0244-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0244-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0244-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0244-1568x1050.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/files\/2022\/01\/DSC_0244.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-link-color wp-elements-b064e312402fdbeec6e2afaf86a25fad\" style=\"padding-top:2em;padding-right:2em;padding-bottom:2em;padding-left:2em\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:48px;font-weight:700;line-height:1.15\">KEEP IT SIMPLE<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-88e218f1daf7742bca9f3903a37a85f1\" style=\"color:#fffdc7\"><strong><a href=\"#\">It should not take you months and weeks to create your first website, but it is recommended that you set aside a day or so. With practice you can create and populate a simple website in just a few hours  \u2192<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-gray-color has-red-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Rookie errors:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To invest in a complicated template feature rich but is too difficult to customize, let alone maintain<\/li><li>To create a complex architecture of blank pages to fill with content later &#8230; <\/li><li>To believe time is not your enemy &#8230; now is the time and it only runs out!<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To open up the customizer, select from the top bar or Dashboard &gt; Appearance &gt; 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 &gt;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/customise-key-aspects-of-your-site-or-switch-template\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Customise key aspects of your site or switch template<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-things-first","tag-customizer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/twentytwentyone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}