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Listed below are the final set of Theme lessons we’ve come up with for Tier 2. Give us a yes/no/”needs more salt” in the comments below. 😉

Basic Theme Configuration
Include how to find theme-specific configuration documentation.
CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings.

Css changes, taglines, and static front pageStatic Front Page A WordPress website can have a dynamic blog-like front page, or a “static front page” which is used to show customized content. Typically this is the first page you see when you visit a site url, like wordpress.org for example. or not
Site icon/logo, HeaderHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. image, background images
Menus in the Customizer

Font management

bethsoderberg 2:34 am on April 21, 2016

YES! 🙂
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bethsoderberg 2:49 am on May 18, 2016

We discussed the details of what the first two of these plans would contain in the May 17th meeting and decided that “Basic Theme Configuration” would be about what types of things you can change (e.g. an intro to what the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. is), not the specific instructions for changing things, but a general overview of what you can do. We think the theme-specific documentation plan could cover how to look at the links to the theme profile in the repo, tags in support and things like that, an explanation that different theme authors do this differently, and notes that there may not be documentation at all.

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