Memberlite settings are spread across three areas of your WordPress dashboard. This page shows you where each type of setting lives and the order to configure them when setting up your site for the first time.

Where Settings Live

The Customizer

The Memberlite Menu

Memberlite adds its own menu to the WordPress admin with these tools:

• Memberlite > Headers and Memberlite > Footers: Create and manage block-based header and footer variations.
• Memberlite > Custom Menus: Create, copy, and delete navigation menus.
• Memberlite > Custom Sidebars: Create custom sidebars.
• Memberlite > Tools: Import, export, or reset your theme settings.
• Memberlite > Alerts: Things to review after a theme update.

The Page Editor

When editing a single page or post, you can override some site-wide settings for just that item. Look for these panels in the Settings sidebar of the block editor: Layout (the sidebar and content width), Banner Image, Page Settings (the masthead, title, and breadcrumbs), and Template Settings (the header and footer). Read more about page and post settings.

Set Up Your Homepage First

Before you open the Customizer, confirm what your homepage displays. This is a WordPress setting, not a Memberlite setting. You’ll find it under Settings > Reading.

1. Go to Settings > Reading.
2. Under Your homepage displays, select A static page.
3. Set Homepage to the page you want visitors to land on first.
4. Set Posts page to the page where your blog posts will appear, if you have one.
5. Click Save Changes.

Getting this right first means the rest of your Customizer settings will apply to the correct pages.

Configure in This Order

We recommend working through these areas in the following order. Each one builds on the last.

1. Site Identity: Your site title, tagline, and logo.
2. Menus: Build and assign your navigation menus under Appearance > Menus or Appearance > Customize > Menus.
3. Widgets: Add content to sidebar and footer widget areas under Appearance > Widgets or Appearance > Customize > Widgets.
4. Colors: Choose a global color scheme or set your own brand colors.
5. Typography: Set heading and body fonts.
6. Header: Choose a header layout.
7. Footer: Choose a footer layout.
8. Posts & Archives: Layouts for single posts, your blog and archives, and search results, plus how posts display on archive pages.
9. Pages: The default layout for your pages.