Excellent! You’ve successfully installed WordPress and your default web design will look like this:-
WP Default Theme
Begin Customising Your Web Design Layout
- From your WordPress Dashboard area, scroll down to the Appearance Menu Tab, open that.
- Underneath, click on Themes menu tab, and you’ll arrive at this page, shown below.
You’ll see the default theme is listed as your ‘Current Theme’.
- Click on Widgets to arrange your widget areas as you want them.
Return to Appearance Menu
When you are ready to customise your WordPress Web Design Theme further, simply return to the Appearance Menu to customise your
- Menus
- Header
- Background
- Theme Options
… to your liking.
You’ll also see the menu for ‘Editor’ – Before you get carried away with the excitement of customising your blog or website theme, make sure you have a backup copy of your files.
You can ‘play’ with those files when you have become much more familiar with how everything works – but not before!!
In the next step, you’ll learn how to change the default WordPress theme.
