Site-Wide Settings

Several settings that affect the entire site can be found under the Customize button in the dashboard.

Site Identity

Learning Tasks

Watch the following videos to learn how to change your site’s title, tagline, logo, and icon.

• Watch: WordPress Tutorials: How to Update Your Website Title and Tagline - Automattic on YouTube

• Watch: WordPress Tutorial: How to Add a Site Logo - Automattic on YouTube

• Watch: WordPress Tutorial: How to Add a Site Icon - Automattic on YouTube

Menus

Best Practices for Menus

Learning Task

• Watch: How Many Items in a Navigation Menu? - Nielsen Norman Group on YouTube

How To Create a Menu

Learning Task

• Watch: WordPress Tutorial: How to Create a Custom Website Menu - Automattic on YouTube

Widgets

Learning Tasks

• Read: Widgets - Support - WordPress.com
• Read: How to Add Widgets on WordPress Site – WordPress Tutorials – WordPress.com

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Extra Resources

• Customize Your Site - Support - WordPress.com
  • Many of the other options in the Customize menu have video tutorials on this page.

Activity

With the help of the above tutorials, change any settings you’d like.

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