WordPress Absolute Beginner’s Guide

10. Tweaking, Tuning, and Customizing Your WordPress Site

In This Chapter

• Adding a custom header to your site

• Adding a custom background to your site

• Creating and managing menus

• Using WordPress widgets

Now that we understand, in general, how themes work, let’s get down to making your site more your own and less looking like everyone else’s. A crucial part of this chapter—and everything we do in it—is that all the customizations we cover are theme dependent and theme specific. Here’s what this means for you. Whether a theme allows you to change the header image or the background or how many widget areas or menus there are depends on the theme. For example, Twenty Thirteen doesn’t allow for custom backgrounds. You can have a custom header ...