Sierra Theme - Appearance

WordPress Customizer

We are going to make a start with the top-level WordPress website styles. Go to Appearance Menu > Customize. This will open the settings screen below, the following tabs need to be visited.

General Settings

Site Identify Site Title (business name)   Tagline (business description) for your website. Uploading your favicon under Site Icon – the icon that sits inside browser tabs. Favicons should be square and at least 512 × 512 pixels.  Click ‘Select Site Icon’ and as you did for the logo, drag your favicon into your media library and select. Crop if needed.

Typography There are extensive settings here for your typography but we have done most of the work with Sierra. Select your Header Font and Body Font from the long Google Fonts dropdown list. For a better view or search of these fonts visit Google Fonts. You may want to change your Header Text Color or Body Text Color if you feel it is more suitable for your brand. The Body Link Color is for text you have added hyperlinks to.

Buttons

Go back to the start of the menu and visit Buttons > Button Style. Enter your main highlight color for the Background Color and Border Color (if preferred). Select the font that will appear in your buttons.

Then to the second part of button settings, Buttons Hover Style. If you wish for there to be a different hover state, change where applicable. Sierra

default button is coloured to transparent on hover with arrow icon active.

Tips: To keep brand consistency, use either the heading or paragraph font you selected in Typography settings above.

Additional CSS

This area contains CCS code for the styling of custom elements used throughout Sierra. This will rarely need to be edited but in the small number of cases you will, you will find the relevant code under its labelling.

Updating Menu Structures

There are 4 locations for menus in Sierra. The Primary Main Header, Header CTA (Telephone Call to Action), Footer Column Menus and Property Page Menu.

The Primary Main Header

There is little to do here unless you wish to add new or remove pages. 

Add New Pages

1. Go to the View All tab to see the full page list.

2. Check the boxes for the pages you want to add.

3. Click Add to Menu. The new pages will appear at the bottom of the menu structure.

4. Edit the Navigation Label in the text field

5. Drag and drop your pages into the desired position. To create a sub-page, drag the page slightly to the right under another page (indented).

Note: This does not change the page URL (permalink). To change the URL, edit the page settings directly.

Remove Pages from Menu Click the page in the menu. Select Remove to delete it from the menu.

Header CTA (call button)

1. Select Header CTA

2. In the URL field, replace the default number with your own telephone number. Keep tel: before the number (e.g., tel:123456789) so browsers recognize it as a phone link.

3. Save Menu

Footer Menu 1 & 2

The footer menu is essentially split into 2 different menus, one for each footer column 3-4. Select each from the top dropdown and if you wish to add, swap, remove or re-arrange them, use the same method as above for the Main Menu.

Property Menu (Property Focus Page)

This menu works as an anchor menu for the information sections on individual property pages. We have inserted anchor links to help the user scroll to desired sections. No changes needed here unless you wish to remove any.