Nocturne’s default appearance uses a dark blue-black background, blue links, boxed content, and a right sidebar.

Choose a layout

Open Appearance → Customize → Theme: Content → Layout and select:

• Left Sidebar: Primary widgets appear to the left of your content.
• Right Sidebar: Primary widgets appear to the right (the default).
• No Sidebar: Content takes the available space without the sidebar.

The Customizer previews the layout as you change it. A sidebar needs widgets: if the left or right layout appears unchanged, go to Appearance → Widgets and add a widget to Primary.

Menus

Under Appearance → Menus, configure the Primary menu for site navigation and the Social menu for social links. On smaller screens, the Primary navigation collapses to a Menu button.

Widgets and posts

Nocturne provides Primary and footer widget areas. It also supports featured images, threaded comments, and navigation between posts.

Colors and typography

The theme’s dark palette and typography are defined in chassis.json, rather than through a separate build process. See Design settings to learn how the configuration works and how to keep overrides through updates.