Customizer

In order to access the Customizer go to Appearance Customize from the WordPress Administration Panel.

The WordPress Customizer in action.
The WordPress Customizer in action.

Site Identity

  • Site Title: This is the website name, it will appear if a logo is not available.
    You can add a logo instead of the Site Title in AppearanceTheme Options.
  • Tagline: This is a short description of your site, which will appear under the logo or site title.
  • Site Icon: The site icon is also known as a favicon. It will appear in the address bar, bookmarks bar and will be used by mobile browsers.

Colors

This section allows you to change the website colors.

  • Header Text Color: The color of the site title and description.
  • Background Color: The color of the site background.
  • Link Color: The color of all links, except for menu and footer links.
  • Hover Link Color: The hover effect color for links.
  • Accent Color: The primary color for the theme, used in places like buttons and the header background.
  • Accent Color 2: The secondary color for the theme, used in combination with the Accent Color and used for less important elements.
  • Footer: The footer background.
  • Footer Text Color: The footer text color.
  • Footer Header Color: Text color used for widget titles in the footer.
  • Accent Color for Text: Color used for text headings.
  • WooCommerce Price Color: If WooCommerce is enabled, this additional color will be used as the color prices are displayed in across the site.

Header Image

The header image displayed below the menu, on the home page template only.

If you want to use the slider like on our demo site, please keep this field blank and go to Slides from the WordPress Administration Panel to add or edit the slider content.

Background Image

This will allow you to add a background image to your website.

This section will allow you to manage navigation menus, such as the main theme navigation in the header. For more information regarding theme menus, please read the Menu chapter.

Widgets

This section will allow your to manage all widgets areas and to add, remove or edit widgets. For more info regarding the widgets please read the Widgets chapter.

Static Front Page

This section will allow you to select a page to use as the home page template. By default, WordPress displays your latest posts on the home page, but this can be changed to display customizable widget areas. The widget areas can contain your latest posts, past and upcoming events, ministries, causes, sermons, projects, sponsors, or any other widgets available in WordPress.

To set up a page to use as a home page, go to Pages → Add New from the WordPress Administration Panel. You can name this page whatever you like, and any content you enter here will be displayed alongside the widget areas. However, it’s important you set the Template (under Page Attributes) to Home page for this to work correctly.

The page editor displaying the home page, with the Template set to Home page.
The page editor displaying the home page, with the Template set to Home page.

If the Page Attributes panel is not visible, go to Screen Options at the top of the screen, and make sure Page Attributes is enabled under Boxes.

Using the same method, add another page for your posts, but this time do not set the template to Home page.

Next, return to the Customizer → Static Front Page. Set the Front page to the first page you created, and the Posts page to the latter page you created.

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The Static Front Page settings in the Customizer, highlighting where the Front page is set.

You can configure the contents of your home page by navigating to Appearance → Widgets and adding any widgets to widget areas called First Home Page Widget area through to Sixth Home Page Widget area.

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