{"id":862,"date":"2025-02-14T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/?p=862"},"modified":"2025-02-24T22:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:59:19","slug":"customizing-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/art-and-humanities-portfolio\/customizing-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing Your Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While a theme does much of the heavy lifting for your site design, there will still be elements you want to customize, and WordPress lets you do this. Each theme has different <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/article\/appearance-customize-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">customization options<\/a>. Full-site editing with the block editor and\/or the Elementor page builder let you do much of your customizing from within a page or template itself, rather than at the level of the theme.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plugins installed on your portfolio site dictate some of the customization possibilities:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Fonts Plugin<\/strong> for site fonts (can customize base typography, headings, and buttons &amp; inputs): hover over the <strong>Fonts Plugin<\/strong> option in the left-hand navigation menu, then click <strong>Customize Fonts<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Elementor Global Site Settings<\/strong> for font colors (and other site styling): when the Elementor editor is open, click the Site Settings button in the top left-hand corner to edit settings.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.42.33\u202fPM.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.42.33\u202fPM-1024x531.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Elementor editor with Site Settings button evidenced through a border and an arrow pointing to it\" class=\"wp-image-902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.42.33\u202fPM-1024x531.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.42.33\u202fPM-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.42.33\u202fPM-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.42.33\u202fPM.png 1251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Location of Elementor&#8217;s Site Settings button<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.47.51\u202fPM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"279\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.47.51\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Elementor Site Settings options for link typography\" class=\"wp-image-904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.47.51\u202fPM.png 279w, https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-3.47.51\u202fPM-125x300.png 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One example of a setting you can customize through Elementor&#8217;s Site Settings area is <strong>links<\/strong>: you can customize how links are signaled typographically throughout your site, with a specific color or typography (font, font size, font decoration such as an underline). You can customize both how links appear normally and how they appear when a mouse is hovering over them. Currently, links on your portfolio site are set to appear with an underline (that disappears when the viewer&#8217;s mouse hovers over them). You can change this by clicking the <strong>Site Settings<\/strong> button, then clicking <strong>Typography<\/strong> (under Theme Style), and then navigating down to the <strong>Link<\/strong> section to edit link color and typography (toggle between the Normal and Hover tabs to edit both), as shown in the screenshot on the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;If you\u2019re not seeing something you want to do, it may require some back-end tweaking \u2013 please feel free to talk to a DLAC staff member to get support in customizing your site to your liking!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a theme does much of the heavy lifting for your site design, there will still be elements you want to customize, and WordPress lets you do this. Each theme has different customization options. 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