Okay, so coming here now we're going to do further customization of the homepage with customizer three theme on WordPress. So I'm in content, home and posts. And I'm going to go into front page and this is this page. Remember, this is got this information here from the WordPress reading settings. Remember we set a static front page and we have a blog post page as well. So that we've already done.
I'm giving the front page a right sidebar that's so this information here doesn't go across the full width. It's very bad to have text that falls across the full width of a page. Here we can have a slider. Remember there was a slider when we first added the theme, but we're not going to do that. But here are the featured pages options. So that's what we've got here.
So we want to set some featured pages. So I'm going to set one is about me. Another one is the courses page. And then another one is the contact me page. And then the theme, we'll get the featured image, the title, and a little extract from that page. Of course, the contact me page doesn't have an image for it.
But we can add an image or a featured image later. Also, this image doesn't crop very well, the About Me page image doesn't crop very well in that circle. But we can change that image as well. So you can even change the text here is all fully customizable. You can change the text on these buttons, instead of saying read more, it can say something else. So that's how we've customized the homepage.
We can customize the pages and posts layout and I would like a right sidebar. There, and I'm going to go right sidebar for everything. So now if we refresh the About Me page, we have the sidebar here instead of on the left, because it doesn't have the widgets that we had put there before. I'm going to click here add widgets to this sidebar, and it's taking us to the right sidebar place where we can add widgets. So let's put in our search widget and recent posts. So back to the customization.
We're in pages and posts. We've done that down here we have breadcrumb and as you can see on the About Me page, you've got this breadcrumb That's what you call this where it shows you how you arrived at the page and for a small sites, I don't think that's helpful information. We we have a home link here on the logo, we Have a home link here in the menu. So we don't need another one here. So I don't find the breadcrumbs important on this particular site. So I'm getting rid of them.
We're going to save and publish there. And now if we refresh the About Me page, those breadcrumbs have disappeared. Now, that's all looking much cleaner. Post matters. This is really important. Let's go to the blog page so we can see what we're doing there.
And as you can see, we've already got a very different blog page design. It's taken the featured image, the headline, and these are the meta information down here. And we've got the other two dummy posts, which of course don't have featured images and don't look so good. But we can customize this back here. So we might want to get rid of the author from the meta, because the author will always be the same. So that's unnecessary, but we've got the date which I think is quite Important, you might want to take the data for the matters.
But let's save that and refresh the blog page. And as you can see, the author has disappeared from the main blog page. It's much better to have just extracts from your blog posts on your main blog page. Remember in 2016, that showed the whole of the post on the archive blog page much better if you just see a little bit of the post the headline and the image and then you can click through to the post, it's much better way of doing it. So here's the meta you've got the date and the category and the tags. You can edit those to show which ones you want.
But this is all looking much better again. So a lot of more customization you can do so you can add more widgets to the footer. You can customize the sidebar further. There really is so much you can do. But I'm gonna leave it there for now, I hope you enjoyed that. This is just showing you what you can do on a different theme in WordPress.
Now, if you were to change the theme back again, or change the theme again to another, a lot of these customizations will be lost. But what won't be lost is the content, the meta information, the titles, the images, and all the basics of what you have published, that will still be there. But with the theme, you can customize the logo, the header, the menus, the featured images, where you see them, what goes on the homepage, what goes on the blog page, and a variety of things. I hope that's helpful for you. There really is a lot to cover in there. But I just wanted to give you an idea of what is possible with different WordPress themes.
My name is Rob carbon. I'll see you in the next video.