This takes us to the header media section. Simply click the edit this element pencil button in the top left corner, or shift click while hovering the header image. You can’t have the same header image as thousands of other websites. Out of the box, Twenty Seventeen looks a lot better than the themes of previous years. Changing or Removing The Header Image Or Using a Header Video Instead of constantly having to make small changes and then click preview after each one, you can now edit on the spot. My favorite update in the most recent update (4.7 at the time of writing) is that there are clickable links next to all editable elements in the preview, that will take you where you need to go to edit that very element.įor example if I click the pencil button next to the headline, it immediately takes me to the customization menu for “Site Identity”, the appropriate section.Īnother handy update is there is now a live preview of any changes you make.
All I’ve done is install the theme, not bad, right?įirst things first, let’s head over to the customizer by clicking the customize link in the top left of our admin bar.Ī few things have changed with the last few updates of the customizer. Right now, my demo website looks like this. – Intermediateīefore we go into the advanced steps of messing around with our own code and the page templates of the theme itself, let’s take a look at the out of the box functionality. Also making bigger changes to the design. Making a child theme and adding some useful functionality.Changing a few parts of the design with basic CSS – Intermediate/Savvy beginner.Making the most of the WP customizer and some of the options of the theme.
In this tutorial, we will cover three different ways of changing the way your site looks and we’ll separate them into three different difficulty categories: So head over to the appropriate installation of WordPress, search for the theme and install it. If you want to use this guide to set up a good looking version of the Twenty Seventeen theme on your live website, I would recommend using a (local) development version of WordPress, or a staged version of your site first. With the things that have changed in the last year in WordPress, it seems like perfect timing to make another one on the Twenty Seventeen theme.
For last year’s theme Twenty Sixteen, we did a comprehensive guide that showed you how to master it, or any theme. How To Master Twenty Seventeen (Or Any WordPress Theme in 2017)Īnother year, another official theme released by WordPress, this time of course it is Twenty Seventeen.