$\"Customizing$ Choosing a color palette for your WordPress theme<\/a> can have a far-reaching effect on the success of your website. Finding a balance between the color and content of your site can encourage your visitors to stay on your site for longer sessions. Changing colors<\/strong> can ultimately improve the authority of your business, or, for designers, make your WordPress website more attractive to new customers.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\nThe BoldGrid website builder plugin<\/a> and themes supplement the WordPress Customizer with extended functionality for color selections in your WordPress theme. You are now able to click, drag, and rearrange colors manually or choose from automatically generated color palettes.<\/p>\n
The advantage of changing colors<\/strong> with color palettes instead of single colors means that if your logo or other branding materials change then you can quickly adjust all the colors of your site to match instead of editing each color separately.This can be a huge time saver for you when using BoldGrid Themes. Color palettes is not something that other themes usually have.<\/p>\n
If you are a casual visitor and are interested in getting started using BoldGrid Inspirations as your WordPress website builder, download the plugin today to start your journey to create a WordPress website<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Follow along with steps below to see how easy it is to customize colors in your WordPress theme. If you have not already logged into WordPress, go ahead and log in now so you can follow along with the steps.<\/p>\n
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$\"Customize$ <\/a>Click the Customize<\/strong> button.\n
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$\"Colors$ <\/a>Choose Colors.<\/strong>\n
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$\"Click$ <\/a>Click and drag colors in the Active Palette.<\/strong>
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$\"Click$ <\/a>Click on an individual color to change it.\n
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$\"Color$ <\/a>Use the hexadecimal value for complete accuracy, or choose from the color picker for an approximate value.\n
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Colors in your theme will change live in the preview window on the right.<\/p>\n
Using Color Palettes<\/h2>\n
$\"Click$ <\/a>As mentioned, you can re-arrange the colors in the active palette and assign different color values, but you can easily get a whole different palette automatically by choosing Suggest Palettes<\/strong>. Click through the different palettes and notice how the colors on your site change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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$\"Save$ <\/a>If you like a certain palette, but you would like to try other ones, click the pin button to save your current palette.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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$\"List$ <\/a>You will see a list of your saved palettes at the bottom of the color menu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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How Color Locking Works<\/h2>\n
$\"Click$ <\/a>With suggested color palettes, you get four complimentary colors at a time. If you like one or more of those colors more than the others, you can lock the colors you like and click the Suggest Palettes<\/strong> button. You will then receive suggestions based on the colors you locked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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$\"Save$ <\/a>Make sure to click Save & Publish<\/strong> when you are done editing.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nNow you are familiar with changing colors in the WordPress Customizer as part of our WordPress website builder<\/a> series. In the next article you will learn about editing the background of theme through the WordPress customizer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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