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Theme Options

Theme Options is the settings panel that styles a whole Salient site: the colors, fonts, header, footer and layouts that every page shares, all set without code. To open it, go to the Salient menu link in your WordPress admin dashboard.

The Salient options panel with its tab list down the left, open on the General Settings Styling section

Everything here is a global setting, affecting the entire website. Each page below covers one tab of the panel and what its settings do. Every edit screen carries its own page and post options as well, which apply to that page alone; those live in the meta options.

General SettingsTheme skin, lightbox and responsive switches, plus the Custom CSS Code and Custom JS Code boxes, all in the first tab of the Salient options panelRead →Accent ColorsSet the site color scheme in the Salient options panel: one Accent Color, three Extra Colors and two gradients that page builder elements pull fromRead →Boxed LayoutA boxed layout puts the whole site in a fixed width box on a page background. Switch it on and style that background in Theme Options > Boxed LayoutRead →TypographyTheme Options > Typography sets the font, size, weight and letter spacing for every text area, from the logo to WooCommerce product titlesRead →Fluid TypographyOne setting that scales your whole type scale with the viewport, with a worked example from the Harbor demoRead →Header NavigationSet the logo, choose a header layout, make the header transparent until the visitor scrolls, and style the off canvas menu, in Theme OptionsRead →FooterSet the number of footer widget columns, the copyright line and the footer colors, and turn on the reveal effect, in Theme Options > FooterRead →Page TransitionsAdd animated page transitions to a WordPress site with no plugin or code: fade, gradient wipe and vertical reveal, set in Salient's theme optionsRead →Page HeaderTheme Options > Page Header sets the site-wide defaults for the title area at the top of a page: height, alignment, load in animation and parallaxRead →Form StylingTheme Options > Form Styling sets how fields, labels and submit buttons look across a Salient site, whichever plugin generated the formRead →PortfolioSalient's options panel defaults for portfolio archives and single project pages: project style, masonry grid sizing, filters, pagination and navigationRead →BlogSite-wide defaults for the blog in the Salient options panel: blog type and masonry, post header style, sidebar, meta, author bio and paginationRead →LegacyHome SliderSettings for Salient's legacy Home Slider plugin, and why a new homepage slider is better built with the Carousel element set to Simple SliderRead →WooCommerceThe WooCommerce tab in the Salient options panel: shop and single product layout, gallery type, product style, archive columns and cart in the navRead →