The Core: Tips, Tricks & TutorialsHow to Style Your Website Using the Color Palette
Imagine wanting to test some website color schemes and in order to do that, you need to go through every page, every section, shortcode and menu just to change the colors to see how it works. This would be a very painful and time-consuming process.
And what if this new best color for your website doesn’t work, you’ll have to do it all over again to switch back. Forget about that most of the WordPress themes out there don’t even let you change the color combination for your website from the admin and you need to have coding and CSS skills to do it.
Don’t worry, the Color Palette option from our The Core multi-purpose WordPress theme, lets you change colors across your website in a couple of seconds.
Color is kind of important
Color is a powerful form of communication, that plays a very important role in the creation of your website. (You might want to check out a case study we’ve published a while back on how to choose the right color palette for your website)
Some smart guys discovered that color increases brand recognition by up to 80 percent (Source: University of Loyola, Maryland study) so you can see why the ability to easily change or modify the colors in our premium WordPress theme The Core was one of our main priority when we’ve built the theme.
We are often asked if the website color combinations are easy to change, so I’ll take this opportunity to show you not only how easily the colors can be changed but also to explain why this Color Palette option is one of the most powerful styling option from The Core theme.
The Color Palette option
In order to access the Color Palette option go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Colors. It looks something like this:
The color palette is composed of 5 different colors that you can set. These 5 colors are found in every color option from the admin: fonts, visual page builder, headers, links, footers, background, everything. When you change one of them from the main color palette two things happen:
Website changes – you’ll change all the instances of this color from the front-end.
Admin changes – you’ll change the default color in all the options across the admin.
Let’s take one of the colors from the Color Palette and analyze what happens on your website and admin if we change it:
Website changes
Changing any color from the color palette will change all the elements from the front end where that color was used.
Admin changes
Changing any color from the color palette will also change the default color in all the options across the admin. What this means is that every color option from the back end (it doesn’t matter where the option is: footer, shortcode, etc) will have the default color palette updated with the new color.
Conclusion
The Color Palette option will enable you to keep a visual consistency across your website and make fast global color changes. This is truly the easiest way to make meaningful color changes to your website in seconds (given that you are using the default colors from options when you create content for your website).
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