Appearance & Design

Choosing and switching themes, changing your site identity, colors, header image and background with the Customizer, editing templates and styles in the Site Editor, managing fonts, and building navigation menus and widgets.

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How to install a theme

A new theme gives your site a whole new look, and installing one takes a couple of minutes — no code involved. You can pick a free design from the WordPress Theme Directory, or upload a theme you already have.

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How to add widgets to your site from the Widgets screen

Widgets are the little extras that live in your site's sidebars and footer — a search box, your latest posts, a tag cloud. The Widgets screen lets you drop them in and arrange them without touching any code.

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How to manage your site’s fonts

Your site's fonts live in one place in the dashboard, and you can change them without editing a single theme file. Install a family from the font library or upload your own files, then decide which styles each family offers.

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How to build your navigation menu in the Customizer

Your site's navigation lives in the Customizer, which keeps your site on one side of the screen and your settings on the other. That makes a menu easy to build: add the links you want, shuffle them into order, and watch every change land on your site before anything goes live.

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How to switch your site’s theme

Your theme is the design your visitors see — the colours, the type, the layout. WordPress lets you try a different one on before you commit, so nothing changes for your visitors until you say so.

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How to build your navigation menu from the Menus screen

Your menu is the short list of links visitors use to find their way around your site. This is how to build one from scratch on the Menus screen — gathering your pages, posts, categories, and custom links, putting them in order, and telling WordPress where the menu should show up.

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How to edit your site with the Site Editor

The Site Editor is where you change how your whole site looks — the layout of your pages, your header and footer, and the colors and fonts used everywhere. It all happens inside WordPress, so there's no code to write.

6 steps Appearance & Design

How to add widgets to your site in the Customizer

Widgets are the handy extras that sit around your content — a search box, your latest posts, a short line of text. The Customizer lets you add one and watch it land on your site as you go, so there's no guessing where it will end up.

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