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Default Text & Headings Settings

The "Theme General Options and Backgrounds" options panel contains a number of additional option panels where you can alter various settings that affect aspects of your theme that are not specifically isolated to individual blocks. This tutorial looks at the "Default Text & Heading Settings" options panel, which include options to set default font attributes for regular text, default text line height, font attributes for heading tags, heading text line height, and heading top and bottom margins.

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Backgrounds and Background Linking

This tutorial looks specifically at the options available when you click the Theme General Options and Backgrounds > Background options panel. These options allow you to customize a full screen background (the primary background of your theme), an overlay background (a second background that sits over the top of your full screen background), and how to set your backgrounds to link to a URL of your choice (can be used to turn your site background into an effective advertising area).

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Set a Favicon

A Favicon, short for "Favorite Icon", is a small 16 pixel x 16 pixel icon that is popularly used by website owners to help build brand awareness. Favicons are commonly used as shortcut icons and browser tab icons. This tutorial looks specifically at the options available when you click the Theme General Options and Backgrounds > Favicon options panel. This is the area in ThemeStarta where you can upload and associate your own custom Favicon to your WordPress theme.

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Site Border

The Theme General Options and Backgrounds options panel is where you can alter a number of settings that affect aspects of your theme that are not specifically isolated to individual blocks. One of those is the ability to set a border around your theme. This tutorial looks specifically at the options available when you click the Theme General Options and Backgrounds > Border options panel where you can set the size (thickness) and color of the border around your theme.

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Site Width & Wrapper Layout

Using the Theme General Options and Backgrounds > Layout options panel you can set the width of your site and apply a site wrapper. A wrapper is a container area that can be set to surround either your fixed width site (the area of your theme with content) or the width of the browser in which your fixed width site is displayed. In this tutorial we'll look at how to set your custom WordPress theme to a fixed width or fluid width and how to set a site width or full width wrapper.

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Google Web Fonts

Google Web Fonts is a directory that contains hundreds of free, open-source fonts that have been optimized for the web. ThemeStarta allows you to use use any of these freely available fonts in your themes. This tutorial looks specifically at the options available in the Theme General Options and Backgrounds > Google Fonts option panel and shows you how to make any Google font available for use in your theme design and how, once made available, you can apply that font to any text element in your theme.

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Theme General Options and Backgrounds Options

The "Theme General Options and Backgrounds" options panel is where you can access six sub option panels that allow you to adjust settings that affect aspects of your theme that are not specifically isolated to the individual blocks. In this overview we'll cover what these six general options and backgrounds option panels are (layout, background, border, Google fonts, default text and headings, and favicon option panels), how to access them, and provide links to complete tutorials for working with each.