Category: First things first
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How do i Modify the modal menu background and text colour?
Full site editing is a bit fiddly and can add to the general frustration of creating a coherent look for your website as much as it empowers you to change things that would otherwise require you to learn CSS. Even basic menu management can make grown men cry, so you will want to keep your…
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OurLocality has a New default theme – TT3
The Full Site Editing experience is not for everyone, but it has been the default WordPress theme for the last 3 years, now so we are giving it a go as the default. So we’re going to let you loose with a new default theme, which is not the latest and greatest but last year’s.…
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Make your site live (no one will find you unless they have the link otherwise)
In our setup the default is to discourage search engines. This is to protect you from accidentally publishing your experimental doodles. In our experience many site owners can take many weeks, months, sometimes years to begin work and then finish their site. For your sanity we recommend you make sure you visit the settings page…
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Add a widget in the footer or delete it
Widgets are blocks that appear outside the content area or a page or post. They include sidebars and footers and in some templates may include multiple positions in the header and above or below it. Footers are useful for boring but essential items like a reminder of the legals, privacy, poilcies, social links, basically the…
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Adjust the menus or remove them entirely
Managing menus is fairly easy, but there are pitfalls due to the flexibility of the options available. You manage menus first by creating a collection or friendly handle/name for your menu. You may want to have a number of menus which you can swap around, perhaps you are doing a major revision to your site.…
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Customise key aspects of your site or switch template
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 >…