6. WordPress Customizer

 

6.1 Introducing WordPress Theme Customizer?

The Theme Customization screen (i.e. "Theme Customizer") allows site admins to tweak the theme settings and see a preview of these changes in real time.

Lolipop theme has implemented customizer and added some useful options to help you style theme background, color elements, upload image logo, choose different blog layouts and a lot more.

Navigate to Appearance » Customize

On the left side, you'll find Theme Customizer with all the options.

 

6.2 Options

1. Site Indentity

Here you can set the title and the tagline for your site.

2. Logo

This gives you the option to upload image logo instead of the site title and tagline.

3. Header Image

Here you can upload a header image.It will appear above the logo on all pages.

4. Background Image

Here you can add a background image.

5. Colors

Here you can change the background color.

6. Widgets

Here you can preview all available widgets on the page you are currently viewing and add or change widgets inside available Widgetized Areas.

7. Theme Options

Choose the best blog layout for your site. You can change the position of the sidebar and select a grid or list layout. This setting applies to archive pages as well. You can hide a search box, hide post author and date from posts and hide author bio.

8. Custom Colors

Here in the first section you can choose from 9 predefined color presets. In the second section you can manually change colors of theme elements using color picker. To be able to manually change colors you need to select "Default" option in the first section.

9. Additional CSS

Add a custom CSS code to your WordPress site without a hassle.