Using the Site Editor

Editing your site

These are block themes, which means everything is editable in the WordPress Site Editor. No page builder, no theme options panel, no code.


Opening it

Go to Appearance → Editor. You will see five sections: Navigation, Styles, Pages, Templates and Patterns.

What each section does

  • Styles — colours, fonts, spacing and button shapes for the whole site. Start here.
  • Templates — the layouts behind each kind of page: the blog index, a single post, the 404 page, product pages.
  • Patterns — reusable sections, plus your header and footer (listed under “Template parts”).
  • Pages — your actual content.
  • Navigation — your menus.

Changing your header or footer

  1. Go to Appearance → Editor → Patterns.
  2. Under Template parts, choose Header or Footer.
  3. Edit it like any page, then click Save.

The change applies everywhere that part is used, instantly.

A warning about menus

When you edit a menu the editor may offer to save it as a reusable navigation menu. That is fine on a single site, but it stores the menu in your database rather than the theme — so it will not travel if you export the theme or copy it to another site. If you move sites often, keep menu links written directly into the header.

Changing colours and fonts

Open Styles (the half-filled circle icon), then Colors or Typography. Editing the palette here updates every block that uses it — you never need to recolour blocks one at a time.

For a whole new look in one click, use a style variation instead.

Undoing a change

Open Styles → Revisions to step back through saved versions, or click Reset to return a template to how the theme shipped it. Nothing you do in the Site Editor is permanent, and none of it edits theme files.

A note on saving

The Site Editor saves templates and styles together. When you click Save, WordPress lists exactly what is about to change — read that list. If something unexpected appears, untick it.