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TinyBlog: Customize Your Theme

WordPress Customizer

WordPress 3.4+ introduces a user-friendly and simple theme customization panel that assists you in tweaking certain aspects of your theme such as the logo, favicon, colors, background and other standard WordPress display settings. Through the customizer, you can create a completely new color theme to make Ambition reflect your style and personality.

Oh no, I screwed up! How can I go back to the theme defaults?

You can reset your colors to the default by expanding the General Theme Settings section and choosing Yes, then Save:

cleansale default theme

In the event some colors do not reset, ensure your Typography Manager settings have been cleared or expand the color scheme section and click the Default button.

The customizer is still an early feature of WordPress , and as such is not perfect. If a color change is not updating in the preview panel, Save and refresh the page.

How to customize your theme

  1. Click Theme Options → Customize OR
  2. Click Appearance → Themes
  3. Click Customize next to the theme thumbnail.

You will then have access to the following customizable options, with the theme-specific sections in bold:

  • Site title & tagline
  • General Theme Options
  • Header Color Scheme
  • Content Color Scheme
  • Footer Color Scheme
  • Colors
  • Background Image
  • Navigation
  • Static Front Page

Site Title & Tagline

  1. Site Title: This is displayed in the browser’s title bar and is the same setting under Settings → General.
  2. Tagline: Also displayed in the browser’s title bar, you may optionally leave this blank.

General Theme Settings

  1. Use the Default? Select Yes if you need to reset, or No for your custom colors to take effect.
  2. Custom Logo: Upload an image to replace the “Ambition” logo. For best results, use an image that is around 250 pixels wide by 35 pixels tall and is not larger than 450 pixels wide or 200 pixels tall. You can access full custom Logo options under Theme Options
  3. Custom Favicon: This should be a 16px by 16px PNG or transparent gif and appears in the browser’s address bar next to your URL. Access ful favicon options under Theme Options

Header Color Scheme

Change the color of elements in the header area.

  • Header Background – Background color of the top bar containing the logo and menu – also affects drop-down background color
  • Navigation Links & Link Hover – Color of your menu links – affects both menus and submenus
  • Menu Bckground Hover – Color of the hover background

Content Color Scheme

Change colors in the content areas.

  • Not ALL classes/styles/elements are included here.
  • General text/font colors such as titles, body text and footer widget titles are affected by the Typography manager under Theme Options.
  • To change the color of an element not affected by the customizer, grab the style by right-clicking and choosing “Inspect Element” in your browser, then copy the style into the Custom CSS of your Theme Options area to customize it.
  1. Post Type Tab Link Color – color of the text in your post type tabs
  2. Post Type Tab & Border – color of the post type tab and top border
  3. Post Titles Hover Color – hover color for post titles. To set the main post title and content text colors, visit Theme Options → Typography
  4. Widget Titles – widget titles in the sidebar
  5. General Link Color – affects links in the content area and sidebar
  6. General Link Color Hover – hover color for links in content area
  7. Post Meta – color of meta such as dates, tag labels, author and categories
  8. Button Color – color of search and submit buttons, slider nav and page link buttons
  9. Button Hover Color – button hover color

Footer Color Scheme

This section adjusts colors exclusive to the footer.

  1. – color of basic text in footer widgets and copyright

Colors

Change general colors such as the Background color. We recommend you use the main Background manager under Appearance → Background to see all of the options available to you for the background.

Custom CSS

For elements not covered by the Customizer, you can use custom CSS to change just about anything. We offer a Custom Styling area in Theme Options to store your styles. This option saves custom CSS in your WordPress database. If your theme files are lost or if you need to reinstall, everything in your database is retained and safe. Older themes may not have this option.

  1. Go to Theme Options → General
  2. Enter or paste your styles into the Custom CSS field. You can grab styles using Inspect Element in your browser.
  3. Click Save

custom.css stylesheet

This option may be easier to manage for advanced designers, but does require backup and maintenance if the theme files need to be reinstalled for any reason.

  1. Go to Appearance → Editor
  2. Click the custom.css link in the lower-right corner
  3. Enter or paste your codes on a blank link below any existing text
  4. Click Update File

Only copy styles you have changed or will customize into these areas – never copy the entire theme stylesheet as this can impede your theme’s ability to recognize important changes we make in hotfixes and theme updates.

Typography Manager

The typography manager in Theme Options allows you to set colors, size and fonts for general text elements. Note that options such as Post Copy will override your General Text settings. To view a detailed walkthrough, go here.


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