How to Use the PageLines Customize Plugin

Revision as of 02:30, 2 December 2011

The PageLines Customize plugin is what most users will use to add custom CSS to their site. This plugin installs an actual style.css file that can be edited to include all of your custom CSS rules. In addition to style.css, the plugin also installs functions.php

The Difference Between the PageLines Customize plugin & the Custom CSS section

The "Custom CSS" section is a simple quick way to add custom styles to your current site design.

The PageLines Customize plugin is a more comprehensive way to customize your theme. It is a way to create child themes for your site through the plugin to add CSS but also functions, hooks and anything you want to customize your site.

Some of the differences

1. The Custom CSS section only allows you to customize CSS
2. In version 1.5 of PagelinesPro there was a base child theme
3. The PageLines Customize plugin replaces the base child theme, allowing you to do the same types of customizations from the plugin rather than from an entirely separate child theme
4. The Custom CSS is just for quick CSS changes, you would not want to use it to re-theme your entire site
5. It also gives you the ability to customize child themes without your changes being overwritten when you update the child theme
6. If you download iblogpro5 and want to customize it, those changes will stick around when you update to iblogpro6

Activate the Pagelines Customize Plugin

Add Plugin

1. Go to your PageLines Settings
2. Click on the "Store" tab
3. Click on the "Plugins" tab
4. Click on the "Add Plugins" tab
5. Click on the "Top Free" tab
6. Find the "Pagelines Customize" plugin and click Activate
7. The physical path to the style.css is (wp-content\plugins\pagelines-customize)