{"id":804,"date":"2018-08-15T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/?page_id=804"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:47:46","slug":"customizing-a-wordpress-theme-part-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/first-steps-to-building-your-wordpress-website\/customizing-a-wordpress-theme-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing a WordPress Theme &#8211; Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"Last updated: August 15, 2018 at 13:47 pm\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve been customizing our WordPress and this is what it looks like so far.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-805\" src=\"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/1-27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1315\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/1-27.png 1315w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/1-27-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/1-27-768x336.png 768w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/1-27-1024x448.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1315px) 100vw, 1315px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-806\" src=\"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/2-24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1330\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/2-24.png 1330w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/2-24-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/2-24-768x357.png 768w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/2-24-1024x476.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1330px) 100vw, 1330px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-807\" src=\"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/3-24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/3-24.png 1296w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/3-24-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/3-24-768x347.png 768w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/3-24-1024x462.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-808\" src=\"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/4-23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1325\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/4-23.png 1325w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/4-23-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/4-23-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/4-23-1024x478.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1325px) 100vw, 1325px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, so those are a few screenshots of what the website looks like so far. Certainly not the most beautiful or exotic site the world, but we&#8217;re getting there!<\/p>\n<p>If you noticed, the menu is still in three locations in the theme. I&#8217;ve tried in the last tutorial to remove them, but there&#8217;re still there. That means I&#8217;m missing something, so I&#8217;ll go do some further digging.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s log back into our WordPress Dashboard: www.hotelamazonasgy.com\/wp-admin, enter username and password, click Login.<\/p>\n<p>Once inside the Dashboard, click on Appearance &gt;&gt; Customize. And this leads the customization screen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-809\" src=\"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/5-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/5-21.png 275w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/5-21-151x300.png 151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to click on Navigation and Menu Settings. This opens a new screen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-810\" src=\"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/6-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/6-21.png 253w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/6-21-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This opens a new screen as you can see in the above screenshot. As you can see, all the boxes there are ticked. That&#8217;s why the menu is appearing in so many places. So I&#8217;ll untick all the boxes except the second one &#8220;Switch on Top Menu.&#8221; Then I&#8217;ll click Publish and I&#8217;ll reload my website in a different browser to see if the changes took effect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-811\" src=\"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/7-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1314\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/7-21.png 1314w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/7-21-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/7-21-768x110.png 768w, https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/08\/7-21-1024x147.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1314px) 100vw, 1314px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And yes! I did it! Now the menu is in just one place. So we&#8217;re getting there.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the next step? The awesome thing about this particular theme is that it offers some widget areas that most other themes don&#8217;t. And that&#8217;s one of the the reason why I chose this theme instead of others: it gives greater customization options.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we&#8217;ll try to put an image slider someone at the top of the website using a widget. There is a widget called &#8220;HomePage Top Sidebar&#8221; which allows to place a widgets at the top of the page.<\/p>\n<p>But before we make this customization, we need to ask ourselves: do we even have this widget as yet? We do have a few widgets there,and there is one that slides images, but to get the right widget that I have in mind, requires us to install a plugin.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a plugin? That&#8217;s a good question, and I&#8217;m glad you asked. (Did you?) Well, so far, I didn&#8217;t even touch on plugins in these tutorials. But installing and configuring plugins is a very crucial steps in building a secure and functional WordPress Website.<\/p>\n<p>So see you in the next lesson: WordPress Plugins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; So we&#8217;ve been customizing our WordPress and this is what it looks like so far. 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