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To get started with your WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. theme, you’ll want to log in and head over to the Appearance menu and pick out one of the installed themes, then activate it on your site. After that, you can start to customize it with CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site.. There are three options, depending on your needs and your experience with CSS:
The Remote CSS tool – This is the best option if you want to make a lot of changes, or if you have an advanced developer on your team.
Jetpack’s Custom CSS module – This is the easiest option if you have a developer, but only need to make a few tweaks.
The Site Cloner tool – This is the best option for camps that don’t have a developer, since you can just copy another camp’s design.
By default, vistors will see a Coming Soon page instead of your live site. This gives you the chance to add some default content and customize your theme before launching the site. Keep in mind that any posts that you publish will be sent to subscribers, though.
When you’re ready to launch the site, just visit Settings > Coming Soon to disable the feature.
If you’re using the WordCamp Base theme, it has several theme options that allow you to drastically change the arrangement of the theme. Unless noted otherwise, all options are located on the Theme Options page under the Appearance menu.
You can easily alter the grid width or alter the layout of the theme. The Theme Layout section controls the width of each section of the theme, and will add/remove widgetWidgetA WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. areas based on your settings.
To add a register button, make sure “Show a featured button in the menu.” is checked. You can then provide text and a URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org for the button.
You can add web fonts by browsing to the Appearance > Fonts menu. If there’s a popular collection of open-source fonts that you’d like to use, but it isn’t available, let us know and we’ll try to add it.