Customizer

Customizer Options

Every option in the WordPress Customizer, organized by panel, with screenshots and notes on what each setting actually changes.

Updated May 2026 · 2 min read

The Food Recipes theme exposes its design through the standard WordPress Customizer at Appearance → Customize. This page is the reference — every panel, every section, every setting, in the order they appear.

Site Identity

Standard WordPress section. Set your site title, tagline, logo, and site icon (favicon). The site title renders in the masthead in italic Cormorant Garamond. If you upload a logo, it replaces the text title.

Colors

Accent color

Single setting that drives every accent in the theme: link colors, hover states, the masthead's decorative line, the underline on nav links, the badge backgrounds, recipe meta icons, ticker bar accents, and more. Default is a warm terracotta #c8522a.

A few accent colors that work beautifully with the cream paper palette:

#c8522a — terracotta (default)
#3a6b5c — sage green
#8a3a4f — deep raspberry
#1a3a5c — navy
#7a5a2a — burnt amber
#5a3a8a — plum

Show news ticker bar — top strip with rotating recent posts.
Show date in masthead — current date in the meta bar (hidden on mobile by default).
Social links — five inputs for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube. Empty fields are hidden, not blanked.

Homepage

Show editorial hero — toggle the large feature grid at the top of the homepage.
Hero post count — how many posts to feature in the hero (3–7).
Show category strip — circular category tiles below the hero.
Layout style (Pro) — Grid, Masonry, Magazine, List, Featured. See Homepage Layouts.

Sidebar position — Right, Left, None. Affects archive and single post pages.

The sidebar uses standard WordPress widgets — manage them at Appearance → Widgets.

Footer about text — short paragraph in the brand column. Supports basic HTML.
Copyright text — bottom strip. Use {year} as a placeholder for the current year.

The footer's category links and recent posts are populated automatically from your published content.

Dark Mode

Pro plugin only. See Dark Mode for the full reference.

Additional CSS

Standard WordPress section. Anything you add here loads after the theme's stylesheet, so it overrides cleanly. See Adding Custom CSS for techniques and gotchas.

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