Credits :Brandon Jones
in this video we’re going to take a brief tour of the option free plugin for WordPress

option three is a plug-in that allows you to quickly and easily set up basic team options like colors fonts and layouts entire super skeleton Family themes uses option tree as a primary theme options manager it’s easy to install and use and ultimately will make your experience with using are themes a lot more enjoyable once you’ve installed the free plug-in and activated our theme your WordPress dashboard will generate a new link under the appearance tab called theme options if you’re not sure how to do this or having trouble refer to our installation videos would you can find at MD & W and at our YouTube channel make design not war options panel

and this is where you’ll find all the settings for your theme from here you can control everything from The Styling options and colors in the theme to the front page layout and slider options for instance if we open styling options will see that the super skeleton theme starts with the classic light colored skin

but if we wanted to change the skin of our theme we’d go back to our option tree panel and select the dark skin option under the default skin

and hit save

now if we go to the front end of our site

will see that the dark styling has been applied there are a lot of other options in each of our super skeleton themes so have fun exploring all of the different options that you can customize to create your own personalized WordPress site

a note for advanced coders you can also activate the developers mode of option tree from your profile we won’t go over this in detail right now but this is how you can extend the theme with your own additional options and features to do this let’s go back into our admin panel go to users and go to your profile scroll down to the bottom and click yes for show settings and Docs

quick update profile

and you’ll see option tree as a new menu option if we hover over this you’ll see that we still have theme options documentation and Now settings

hear option tree will allow you to add or edit existing options this is only for the most advanced coders that are really comfortable with working with the code in WordPress themes but it’s there for anyone who wants to get their hands dirty that’s all we have for this video catch up with us on the theme for his form and check out our spending video library on our site MD mw.net where you’ll find videos like this one to help you get the most out of your themes I’m Charlie thanks for watching

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