{"id":871,"date":"2025-02-14T20:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/?p=871"},"modified":"2025-02-14T20:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:48:48","slug":"going-further-themes-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/art-and-humanities-portfolio\/going-further-themes-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Further: Themes &amp; Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Site Theme<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A site\u2019s theme dictates your site\u2019s general appearance. You can customize your existing theme or choose a different theme entirely. Select <strong>Appearance <\/strong>&gt; <strong>Customize<\/strong> from the sidebar menu to customize your existing theme, or <strong>Appearance <\/strong>&gt; <strong>Themes<\/strong> to play around with other themes. The <strong>Live Preview<\/strong> button lets you see what your site content would look like with another theme!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Elementor plugin installed, some Elementor settings may override the theme, or vice versa, so you\u2019ll want to test and monitor your content as you make changes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plugins<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plugins add additional functionality to your website. For example, if you would like your site to have a contact form, you might be interested in installing a plugin to accomplish this goal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can install them by clicking <strong>Plugins<\/strong> from the sidebar menu and then clicking the <strong>Add New Plugin<\/strong> button at the top. There are many plugins out there to meet a variety of needs: make sure to read the details carefully. Before you install a new plugin, make sure your plugin has other active installations, good reviews, and regular updates; and is compatible with your version of WordPress.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site Theme&nbsp; A site\u2019s theme dictates your site\u2019s general appearance. You can customize your existing theme or choose a different theme entirely. Select Appearance &gt; Customize from the sidebar menu to customize your existing theme, or Appearance &gt; Themes to play around with other themes. The Live Preview button lets you see what your site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-humanities-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}