Customizing Themes

Unfortunately we can’t offer support for customizing the themes beyond the options available in the theme customizer or options panel. However, you are definitely welcome to customize the CSS or code yourself or hire a developer to help you with that.

We also offer paid services for small customization projects and consultation.

Styles

If you just need alter styles for items that are not available in the theme customizer, we recommend using the JetPack Plugin with the Custom CSS Module enabled. This allows you to easily paste in any additional style rules.

DevPress Child Themes

When modifying a DevPress theme, we don’t recommend editing theme files directly unless you are doing a very custom implementation and plan to continue maintaining the theme. If you wish to continue to get updates from DevPress, we highly recommend using a child theme.

Child themes allow you to add custom functions, overwrite templates, and make design edits all without touching the parent theme’s files. All our themes are designed to function as parent themes.

Use our example child themes

If you’re unfamiliar with creating and setting up a custom child theme, no problem. You can find a child theme download already created for you here.

We’ve already created the folder structure, files, and everything else you need to get started when modifying your site.

Once you’ve installed the theme on your site, you need to go to Appearance > Themes in your WordPress admin and activate the child theme.