Most of Prismatic’s options live in the Customizer, so you can preview every change before you publish it. Go to Appearance → Customize to get started.
Prismatic groups its options into panels whose names start with Theme:.
Theme: Global → Background
Choose what appears behind your site’s content:
- Background Color: the color behind your site’s content. It defaults to white.
Background Type
- None: a plain background color.
- Image: a background image you upload.
- Pattern: one of dozens of built-in patterns.
- Background Image: shown when the type is Image.
- Background Pattern: shown when the type is Pattern. Pick a pattern and the preview updates instantly.
Theme: Header
- Colors sets the header’s Background Color, which defaults to a deep teal (
#0b5e79), and its Header Text Color. - Header Image lets you upload an image to display in the header. The recommended size is 2000 × 300 pixels.
Theme: Content → Global Layout
Choose where the sidebar appears across your site:
- Left Sidebar (default)
- Right Sidebar
To change the layout of a single page, use a page template instead.
Theme: Footer
- Colors → Background Color sets the footer color, which also defaults to
#0b5e79. Credit
- Show random “powered by” credit text turns the credit line on or off.
- Custom Footer Text appears when the credit is turned off, so you can write your own footer line.
Theme: Home
These options control the sections on a Showcase front page:
- Introduction: a title and description at the top of the page.
- Portfolio: your latest portfolio items. This needs the Backdrop Custom Portfolio plugin.
- Blog: your three latest posts.
Each section has an Enable checkbox, plus a title and description you can change.
Menus and widgets
Under Appearance → Menus you can assign two menus:
- Primary Navigation, shown in the header.
- Social Navigation, for links to your social profiles.
Under Appearance → Widgets you’ll find three widget areas: Primary, Subsidiary, and Custom. See Page templates for where each one appears.