Design

Explore your Cadenza Theme and learn how to customize the layout, colors, and content to make it your own. Learn about all of the tools you have available for creating exciting and informative pages, from Content Modules, Icons, and Images, to customizing your site with your own colors and styles.

Configuring Widgets

Widgets can be added to your sidebars, footer widgets areas and content modules. Widgets add content and functionality to these areas and many have different configuration options so you can customize exactly how you need the Widget to look and behave. Some Widgets are very simple, and perform just a single function. The Search Widget is a good example. By…

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Primary Sidebar

You Primary Sidebar is used on Post pages such as News posts, or blog post pages, if you choose to create and maintain a blog or any other category of posts. The Primary Sidebar typically contains links to other post categories, recent posts and other widgets. You can also add the Primary Sidebar in other areas of your Cadenza website…

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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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Footer Columns

Your Cadenza Theme can display up to four additional Footer Columns if desired. Footer Columns display directly above the actual site footer, at the bottom of your pages. If you don’t add any content or widgets to the columns, then nothing displays at all. Footer columns automatically re-proportion themselves to fill a combined 100% of the page  (content area) width. In other…

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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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Adding Menus to Your Site

Your Cadenza website comes with a built-in Main Menu. This menu is used for your primary site navigation and you can add, delete or modify links as needed. You can also create additional Custom Menus for other areas of your website, through Widgets or through the Page Builder. For example, you may want to create a custom menu of your…

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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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