Customizing Your Website: Advanced

From time to time, you might like to update the look and feel of your WordPress site. This video demonstrates how to change the look of your site by customizing the default theme or installing a new theme. We show you how to find, install, and configure third-party plugins to add new functions and features to your WordPress site. Plus you’ll learn what Widgets are, and how they can be used to easily add blocks of content to your site’s sidebar or footer.

Changing Your Theme

From time to time, you might like to update the look and feel of your WordPress site. This video demonstrates how to change the look of your site by customizing the default theme or installing a new theme.

From the Appearance sub-panel, you can change the entire look and feel of your site by installing and activating new themes, or by changing your existing theme. A theme is actually a bundle of files that determine the overall design of a site, including colors, graphics, layout, and fonts. There are literally thousands of WordPress themes available to choose from, running the entire gamut of both quality and price.

This video also covers how to add a custom background image or custom header graphic to your site design, plus how to use a static page as the homepage for your site, instead of the default list of blog posts!

What's Covered In This Video

• How to find and install new themes
• How to build a business site or a blog, or both!
• Changing the theme in WordPress by installing a new theme or customizing your existing theme
• Updating the look of your site with one click using the Appearance sub-panel
• Using Live Preview to customize and preview changes before you activate a new theme
• Using the Theme Customizer to customize your site and preview changes in real-time
• NEW! Using a static page as the homepage for your site, instead of the default blog layout. (2:05)
• Editing the background and header in the default WordPress Theme, Twenty Twelve