Most Bootplate customization should be done via child themes<\/a>.\u00a0 Extending should be done via Plugins<\/a>. There are, however, a few general settings you can make using WordPress’ Theme Customizer.<\/p>\n Introduced way back in WordPress 3.4, the WordPress Theme Customizer lets you make changes and preview them in real time.\u00a0 Here’s a little video<\/a> from the function’s creator on YouTube.<\/p>\n Don’t care?\u00a0 That’s cool.\u00a0 Let’s just get to it.<\/p>\n Once you’ve activated Bootplate or your Bootplate Child Theme, you’ll have a new General Settings<\/strong> panel under Appearance<\/strong> >> Customize<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If you clicked on the first panel labelled, Site Identity<\/strong>, you’d see the follow general stuff.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click the “back” arrow and you’ll find General Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Again, we’re keeping these pretty simple.\u00a0 Child Themes<\/a> are where the real customization happens.\u00a0 These are just global options.\u00a0 You’ll see what I mean in a moment.<\/p>\n The first few settings are all about the navigation bar.\u00a0 There are three separate controls.<\/p>\n There are three basic navigation bar types.\u00a0 Here’s the rundown.\u00a0 You can also check out some screenshots of each<\/a>.<\/p>\n Scroll<\/strong> (default)<\/strong><\/p>\n Fixed to Top<\/strong><\/p>\n Fixed to Bottom<\/strong><\/p>\n There are three (3) navigation position options as of Bootplate v1.1.<\/p>\n Right Nav (the default)<\/strong> – Uses the Primary menu<\/strong> location and floats it to the right (as seen here).<\/p>\n Left Nav<\/strong> – Ignores the Primary menu location, and instead uses the Primary Menu (left)<\/strong> menu location.<\/p>\n Split Nav<\/strong> – Uses BOTH the default, right nav menu location (on the right) and the Primary Menu (left)<\/strong> menu location on the left.\u00a0 See an example of what a split nav looks like in our AgencyPlate theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are six (6) basic nav styles.\u00a0 Here’s the rundown.\u00a0 You can also check out some screenshots of each<\/a>.<\/p>\n Navbar Dark (default)<\/strong><\/p>\n Navbar Dark w\/ Logo Navbar Dark w\/ Logo Bug and Text Navbar Light<\/strong><\/p>\n Navbar Light w\/ Logo Navbar Light w\/ Logo Bug and Text Paste your Google Analytics property ID (UID) to add an optimized version of their latest tracking code to the footer of every page of your Bootplate-powered website. The UID will look something like That’s it as of v1.1 of Bootplate.\u00a0 Maybe you’d like to see a few examples?\u00a0 Here are some screenshots<\/a>, but the Theme Customizer lets you see these global settings done in REALTIME even before you publish them publicly.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t Most Bootplate customization should be done via child themes.\u00a0 Extending should be done via Plugins. There are, however, a few general settings you can make using WordPress’ Theme Customizer. The Theme Customizer Introduced way back in WordPress 3.4, the WordPress Theme Customizer lets you make changes and preview them in real time.\u00a0 Here’s a little… more Customization<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425,"parent":41,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-left.php","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Theme Customizer<\/h2>\n
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Formal Name:<\/strong> Defaults to nothing.<\/h4>\n
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Enable Back-to-Top<\/strong>: Hidden by default.<\/h4>\n
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Enable Social Share<\/strong>: Disabled by default.<\/h4>\n
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