Site Design

Cadenza Themes are designed to be flexible, or can be used just as they are, with a few customizations. Learn how to edit your Theme or even change Themes later. Explore the Customizer to see how you can make more tweaks to make your theme even better.

Editing Your Theme

Your Cadenza Theme’s layout gives you a good foundation upon which to build, but you’ll need to swap out the default images and text to make the page your own. Every Theme is a little different, although many of them share some common elements. All Cadenza Themes are built with the Page Builder and Content Modules. Becoming familiar with these…

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Choosing or Changing Themes

If you selected a Cadenza Theme during sign-up, then your site was customized based on your color scheme selections. If you did not select a Theme, then a Cadenza Theme was selected for you as a starter Theme. You may change your Theme at any time to another Theme, however, there are some important considerations and steps that must be…

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Customizer Overview

The WordPress Customizer is the primary control panel for defining the visual element of your Cadenza website. The Customizer sets global styles that define not only what fonts and colors you use on your website, but also how some parts of your pages are layed out, and where and when they appear. You may spend a lot of time at…

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Do-It-Yourself Themes

All Cadenza Themes have beem thoughtfully developed with the purpose of being aesthetically appealing, while also giving your home page useful, dynamic information blocks like News and Events, saving you some time figuring out how to include content yourself. However, you are completely free to build your own custom theme just the way you want it! By using the Page…

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Customizer Settings

The Cadenza Customizer provides you with an assortment of tools that allow you to edit the way your site looks, everything from font sizes and colors to the layout of your header and footer. Its a good idea to explore the Customizer tabs to get familiar with where the settings are before making any changes. Cadenza creates your site based…

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Color Schemes

If your school or organization has a color scheme based on a college or professional sports team, you can use the charts below to find the hexadecimal value for your primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Open your Customizer in another tab or window while viewing this page to add these colors to font, heading, background or highlight color settings. Make…

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Fonts

Cadenza gives you access to Google Fonts to provide you with dozens of font choices for your website. Google font styles include Serif, Sans Serif, Display, Handwritten and Monospace varieties. The simple fact is that many of these fonts probably won’t look very good on your website, especially those in the Display or Handwritten categories. Of course, the choice to…

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Site Logos

As part of your site identity, you can replace the text site title in your header with your organization’s logo. Using your logo instead of your text title, truly makes your Cadenza website your own and makes your site easily identifiable to your members, supporters and other site visitors. Logo designs vary greatly and can be sometimes tricky to fit…

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