Introduction
Nitro Customizer allows you to preview changes to your site before publishing them. You can also change and preview settings for each page on your site here.
Open Customizer
There are 2 methods to open Nitro Customizer.
- Click on Customize button on top sidebar.
- Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize.
Expert Mode
By default, you can only see live preview while you are opening the right tab on the right page. For example, you cannot see changes for product category page when you’re still on Homepage. That’s why we hide settings for inactive pages.But if you want, you can still enable settings for the inactive page. Here’s how to do it.
- Hover and click on “Expert Mode” to turn on Live Customizer for the inactive page.
- On Customizer, open “System” tab, then turn on “Enable Expert Mode”.
Note: Turning on “Expert Mode” on “System” tab in method 2 will be synchronized with that on Method 1.
Customization Tabs
Follow below links to learn how to customize a section using Live Customizer:
- General: general settings for your whole site
- Layout: change settings for design layouts
- Typography: all you need to change text areas
- Color: everything related to color can be edited here
- Header: pick up a global header for all your pages. To add, manage, or edit headers, open Header Builder on your WordPress Dashboard)
- WooCommerce: include all magic for eCommerce pages, like product category, product details, cart page, checkout page
- Blog: change settings for blog list and blog detail pages
- Pages: global settings for page, including “404” page
- Footer: pick up footer for each sidebar area and copyright text (to create or change footer widgets, go to “Widgets” tab)
- System: everything related to system for your site can be edited here: change front-page, custom CSS, etc.
- Menus: change content and settings for all menus (you can also change menu’s content in “Widgets” tab)
- Widgets: customize content for all widgets on your site
Note: all changes in Live Customizer will be applied to all pages that are using “Global Settings“. To change settings for a specific page, please click here.
General
In this panel, you can customize settings for your overall live site. To view settings for any sub-panels, click on below links:
Site Identity
In this sub-panel, you can change global site’s information.
- Site title: change site’s title
- Tagline: change site’s tagline
- Site icon: change icon for your site.
Social
Inthissub-panel, you can quickly insert links to your social channels. Social icons of channels which include links will be displayed on every social icon area on your site.
Page Loading Effects
In this sub-panel, you can change the loading style of your site.
There are 3 loading options:
- None: when you don’t want to use loading effect
- CSS Animation
- Image
CSS Animation
There are 12 CSS animations
This is how CSS Animation loading effect works.
Image
This is how image loading effect works.
Widget Styles
In this sub-panel, you can customize widget style, with specific settings for each one.
You can also customize widget color by clicking on the bottom button.
There are 4 widget styles:
Style 1
Options:
- Enable background
- Enable border
- Enable divider for widget title
Style 2
Options:
- Enable background
- Enable border
- Enable divider for widget title
Style 3
Options:
- Enable border
Style 4
Options:
- Enable backgroundNote: if you disable boxed layout, you cannotchange secondary background color (which is also widget background color)
Pagination Style
In this sub-panel, you can change style for your pagination.
There are 3 pagination styles:
Style 1
Style 2
Style 3
Back to top button
“Back to top” button helps you instantly scroll up to the top of any page on your site.
When enable “Back to top” button, you can see all settings for this button.
With the “Back to top” button, you can set:
You can also customize button color by clicking on the bottom button on this sub-panel.
Shape
There are 3 button shapes:
Square
CircleRounded
Style
There are 2 styles: Light and Dark.
Light
Dark
Button Size
Icon Size
Layout
In this sub-panel, you can customize:
General
In this sub-panel, you can customize
You can also edit color and typography of layout by clicking on 2 buttons at the bottom of this sub-panel.
Offset width
Offset width is in px
Content width
Content width is in px or %
Gutter width
Change the width between 2 sections.
Enable boxed layout
When enabling boxed layout, you can display a padding around the main wrapper and can apply a custom background to your page’s body content.
Note: When enabling boxed layout:
- Changing offset width means changing the width of the whole page wrapper. When disabling boxed layout, changing content width means changing only the width of all elements inside page wrapper.
- Content width remains unchanged
You can also edit color and typography of layout by clicking on 2 buttons at the bottom of this sub-panel
Page Title
Options
- Show page title
- Enable full width: use full width or not
- Layout
- Show breadcrumb
- Padding top and bottom
- Min height
Show page title
When enabling page title, you can see all settings for page title.
Layout
There are 5 layout styles.
Style #1
Style #2
Style #3
Style #4
Style #5
Show breadcrumb
Paddings
Min height
Setting Minium height for page title
You can also edit color and typography of layout by clicking on 2 buttons at the bottom of this sub-panel
Button
Options:
Paddings
Paddings are in px.
Border radius
Border radius is in px.
Border width
Border width is in px.
You can also edit color and typography of layout by clicking on 2 buttons at the bottom of this sub-panel.
Typography
[‘Here you can customize typography:
General
You can customize text style for Body Text and Heading Text.
To customize color or layout for these 2 kinds of text, you can click the buttons at the bottom of each sub-panel.
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Body fonts
- Body font type: change font type for body text
- You can choose google fonts, standard fonts or Custom fonts
- Custom fonts support file with format: eot, otf, ttf, woff, woff2
- Body text size: drag to change size for body text
- Body line height: change height between 2 text lines on body text
- Body letter spacing: change spacing between 2 letters on body
Heading font
- Heading font type: change font type and style for heading text
- You can choose google fonts, standard fonts or Custom fonts
- Custom fonts support file with format: eot, otf, ttf, woff, woff2
- Heading base size: change size for all headings. This means changing all your headings in an appropriate ratio (no need to manually change size for each heading)
- Heading line height: change height between 2 text lines on heading
- Heading letter spacing: change spacing between 2 letters on heading
To customize color or layout, you can click the buttons at the bottom of each sub-panel
Page Title
Options:
- Heading style: pick up a style for heading
- I: Italic
- U: Underline
- T: Uppercase
- Heading text size: change size for heading text
- Heading line height: change height between 2 text lines for heading
- Heading letter spacing: change spacing between 2 letters for headingtfr
To customize color or layout, you can click the buttons at the bottom of each sub-panel
Button
Options:
- Style: pick up a style for button text
- I: Italic
- U: Underline
- T: Uppercase
- Text size: change size for button text
- Line height: change height between 2 text lines for button text
- Letter spacing: change spacing between 2 letters for button text
To customize color or layout, you can click the buttons at the bottom of each sub-panel
Quotes
Options:
- Text font: pick up a font for quote text
- Text style: pick up a style for quote text
To customize color or layout, you can click the buttons at the bottom of each sub-panel
Color
In this sub-panel, you can change general color settings for:
General
In this section, you can change general color settings sfor your site, including:
Color profiles
3 predefined color profiles, plus 1 custom profile for you to save your own color profile.
Light (1)
Light (2)
Custom
Background
- Outer Body BG: set background color for outer body
- Inner body BG: set background
- Secondary BG: set secondary background
- Form fields BG: set background for form fields
- Offset BG: set offset background
- Outer Body BG image: set background for out
Content
- Main: set main color tone
- Text: set color for body text
- Heading: set color for heading text
- Entry meta: set color for entry meta text
- Line: set color for all lines
You can also edit layout and typography by clicking on 2 buttons at the bottom of this sub-panel.
Page Title
In this panel, you can change color style for page title, including:
Use general color
When enabled, you can apply color settings in “General” tab for page title.
If you want to customize text color for page title only, disable this option.
Background
Background color
Background image
Upload background image
- Background Size
- Auto
- Cover
- Contain
- Background Repeat
- No repeat
- Repeat
- Repeat X
- Repeat Y
- Background Position
- Left Top
- Left Center
- Left Bottom
- Right Top
- Right Center
- Right Bottom
- Center Top
- Center Center
- Center Bottom
- Background Attachment
- Scroll
- Fixed
- Parallax Background
- Mask Overlay Color
Content
- Text: change color for body text
- Heading: change color for heading text
- Link: change color for links
- Hover: change color for link hover
You can also edit layout and typography by clicking on 2 buttons at the bottom of this sub-panel.
Button
In this sub-panel, you can change color style for primary and secondary buttons.
Primary
Primary buttons are buttons that take you to a new page. You can customize primary button including:
Background
Change primary color for background
Background hover
Change primary color for background on mouseover
- Text:Change primary color for text
- Text hover:Change primary color for text on mouseover
- Border: Change primary color for all borders
- Border hover:Change color for border on mouseover
Secondary
- Background: change secondary color for background
- Background hover: change secondary color for background on mouseover
- Text: change secondary color for text
- Text hover: change secondary color for text on mouseover
- Border: change secondary color for all borders
You can also edit layout and typography by clicking on 2 buttons at the bottom of this sub-panel.
Footer
Here you can change color style for footer and footer bottom, including:
Use general color
When enabled, you can apply color settings in “General” tab for Footer. If you want to customize text color for footer only, disable this option.
Main footer content
- Background color
- Background image: select image for background
- Background Size
- Auto
- Cover
- Contain
- Background Size
- Background Repeat
- No repeat
- Repeat
- Repeat X
- Repeat Y
- Background Position
- Left Top
- Left Center
- Left Bottom
- Right Top
- Right Center
- Right Bottom
- Center Top
- Center Center
- Center Bottom
- Background Attachment
- Scroll
- Fixed
- Parallax Background
- Mask Overlay Color
Footer Bottom
- Text: change color for text
- Background color: change footer’s background color
- Link: change link color
- Link hover: change link hover color
You can also customize footer widget by clicking on the button at the bottom of this sub-panel.
Header
In this panel, you can pick up a header for all your pages.
Display a header
To display a default header for all pages on your site, pick up a header from below list.
You can also add a default header for a specific page. Click here to learn how to do it.
Configure a header
To configure a header, go to Header Builder settings.
WooCommerce
In this panel, you can customize all settings for WooCommerce elements.
Please notice that all changes in this panel will only affect WooCommerce pages, including:
General
In this section, you can live configure general settings for all WooCommerce pages and elements.
Options:
Note: you can also use “buy now” button for one or several products anywhere on your site by using Buy Now shortcode.
Enable catalog mode
When enabled, no one can see eCommerce buttons (add to cart, buy now, quick view, compare). Your eCommerce site will turn into an online catalog.
When catalog mode is enabled, you can disable product price as well as add acustom CTA button.
Disable price
Show or hide price in Product List or Product Details page
Enable custom button
In Product Details page, you can add a button with the following options:
Button text: insert text on button
- Button type:
- Simple text or link: insert action for button such as link or email address etc.
- Contact Form 7: select form, only work with Contact Form 7 plugin
Disable wishlist/buy now
- #1 Enable/disable wishlist: show/hide wishlist icon on each product item
- #3 Enable “buy now” button: when enabled, there’ll be a “buy now” button being added to each product item. You can configure how this “buy now” button works
Icon set
Pick up a predefined eCommerce icon set for all WooCommerce elements
Note: you can also use “buy now” button for one or several products anywhere on your site by using Buy Now shortcode.
Product Category
In this sub-panel, you can customize settings for product category.
General
Options:
- Show page title
- Sidebar layout
- Sidebar width
- Enable sticky sidebar
- Sidebar above product list
- Sidebar below product list
- Customize widget styles
Show page title
Show or hide page title
Sidebar layout
Pick up a layout for product category page. There are 3 sidebar layouts.
Layout 1
Layout 2
Layout 3
Sidebar width
Change the width for sidebar. If you choose “no sidebar” option above, this option won’t be shown
Enable sticky sidebar
Make sidebar sticky.
Sidebar above product list
Pick up a sidebar above product list
To create a new sidebar or change sidebar content, go to Widgets panel on Live Customizer, or go to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
Sidebar below product list
Pick up a sidebar below product list.
To create a new sidebar or change sidebar content, go to Widgets panel on Live Customizer, or go to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
Customize widget styles
You can also customize Widget styles for your product detail page by clicking on this button.
Product List
With this sub-panel, you can customize:
- Product list layout
- Enable border wrap
- Number of columns
- Column gutter width
- Enable full width
- Enable item animation
- Number of products per page
- Pagination type
- Product item
Layout
There are 3 product list layouts: Grid, Masonry, and List.
Grid
Masonry
List
Enable border wrap
Use border wrap around each product item
Number of columns
There are 3 options for number of columns:
2-column
3-column
4-column
Column gutter width
Enable full width
Enable full-width layout style for product list page
Enable item animation
Turn on animation effect for product items
Number of products per page
Change total number of product items per page
Pagination type
There are 3 pagination types.
Number
Load More
Infinity scroll
Product Item
Here you can pick up a layout as well as hover effect for each product item on product category page.
Layouts
There are 6 layouts for a product item.
Layout 1
Layout 2
Layout 3
Layout 4
Layout 5
Layout 6
Hover effects
There are 4 hover effects for your product item:
Notice: if your choose product list layout #4, you cannot set hover effect.
None
There is no hover effect at all.
Zoom In
Mask Overlay
2-image Preview
Product Details
On this sub-panel, you can configure your product detail item page, including:
General
- #1 Enable floating “add to cart”: make “add to cart” button always display no matter how you scroll mouse up and down
- #2 Enable social share: turn on social sharing
- Sidebar above product details: pick up a sidebar above product details area
- Sidebar below product details: pick up a sidebar below product details area
Main Information
Options:
Layout
There are 5layout styles for main information area.
Layout 1
Layout 2
With layout 2, you can:
- Change sidebar layout
- Pick up product thumbnail position
- Enable/disable image zoom on hover
- Enable/disable product navigation
Sidebar layout
There are 3 sidebar layouts:
None
Left sidebar
With left sidebar, you can customize sidebar, including:
Pick up sidebar content
To create a new sidebar or change sidebar content, go to Widgets panel on Live Customizer, or go to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
Change sidebar width
Sidebar width is in px
Enable sticky sidebar
Keep the sidebar display when scrolling down
Customize widget styles
you can also customize Widget styles by clicking on this button.
Right sidebarWith right sidebar, you can make customizations like on left sidebar, including:
Thumbnail position
There are 3 thumbnail positions: Left, Right, Bottom
Left
Right
Bottom
Enable zooming on mouse hover
When enabled, you can make zooming effect on mouse hover.
You can customize zooming options, including:
Zooming type
There are 3 zooming types: Window, Inner, and Lens.
Window
With this zooming type, you can change width and height for the zooming window.
Inner
Lens
Enable mousewheel zoom
When enabled mousewheel zoom, you can make zooming just by scrolling your mousewheel.
Enable easing
When enabled easing, your zooming movements will be smoother.
Layout 3
Layout 4
With this layout, you can pick up background color for main product section.
Layout 5
This layout is used for digital download niche, but you can still use it for your product detail page if you like.
Extra Information
- #1 Show description: show product description
- #2 Show attributes: show product attributes
- #3 Show reviews: show review area
Other Products
In this section, you can customize:
Show related products
Show upsell products
Show recently viewed products
Number of products to show
Number of products is from 1 to 6
Cart Page
Sidebar above cart page
Sidebar below cart page
Checkout Page
Sidebar above checkout form
Sidebar below checkout form
Thank You Page
You can write your own thank you page by clicking “Set Content” button. HTML tags are allowed
Mobile layout
Besides using responsive desktop layout, you can setup a special shop layout on mobile devices. We highly recommend you to use this mobile layout to ensure the most friendly user experience on mobile devices.
On this section, you can setup mobile layout for:
Product category
This is a product category layout on mobile.
With this shop page, you can:
Show or hide product categories widget
Show or hide sidebar widget. When enabling sidebar widget, you can pick up a sidebar content
Layout:
There are 2 layouts for product category: Grid and List
Grid
With grid layout, you can pick up number of product item columns. There are 2 options for number of columns:
1-column
2-columns
List
Product details
With product detail, you can enable or disable sticky function of “add to cart” button.
Blog
In this panel, you can customize all settings for blog list and single post.
Blog list
In this sub-panel, you can customize all settings for blog list, including:
Layouts
There are 4 layouts:
Layout 1
Item styles
With Layout 1, there are 2 blog item styles: transparent and with background.
Transparent
With background
You can change blog item’s background color in “Secondary Background” on Color settings.
Layout 2
Item styles
With this blog list layout, there are 2 item styles: transparent and with background.
Item style 1 – Transparent
Item style 2 – With background
You can change blog item’s background in “Secondary Background” on Color settings.
Layout 3
Layout 4
With this style, there are 3 options for number of columns, and 2 item styles.
Number of columns
There are 3 options for number of columns:
2-column
3-column
4-column
Item style
There are 2 blog item styles: transparent and with background.
Transparent
With background
Enable full width
When enabled, all single blog post items will be displayed full-width of blog page.
Sidebar layouts
There are 3 sidebar layouts: no sidebar, left sidebar, and right sidebar.
No sidebar
Left sidebar
With this sidebar, you can pick up sidebar content, change sidebar width or enable sticky sidebar.
Pick up sidebar content
To create a new sidebar or change sidebar content, go to Widgets panel on Live Customizer, or go to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
You can also customize widget styles.
Change sidebar width
Sidebar width is in px. From 250 to 575px
Enable sticky sidebar
When enabled, your sidebar won’t be disappeared when scrolling mouse down.
Right sidebar
All options for right sidebar is like those in left sidebar.
Single post
In this sub-panel, you can customize all settings for single blog post, including settings for single post title and single post content.
Single post title
- Layout
- Font size
- Padding top & padding bottom
Layout
There are 2 layouts for single blog post title.
Layout 1
Layout 2
With this layout, you can setup post title’s background to full screen.
Font size
Font size is in px, from 12 to 80px
Padding top & padding bottom
Padding is in px, from 0 to 500px.
Single post content
Here you can edit content and sidebar layout, including:
- Sidebar layout
- Show social sharing
- Show author info
- Show post navigation
- Show comment area
- Sidebar below comment area
- Sidebar belowppst
Sidebar layout
There are 3 sidebar layouts, including:
Note: with Left Sidebar or Right Sidebar layout, you can also edit sidebar content and width
No sidebar
Left sidebar
Right sidebar
Show social sharing
Show author info
Show post navigation
Show comment area
Sidebar belowcomment area
To create a new sidebar or change sidebar content, go toWidgetspanel on Live Customizer, or go toWP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
Sidebar belowpost
To create a new sidebar or change sidebar content, go toWidgetspanel on Live Customizer, or go toWP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
Pages
In this panel, you can customize settings for:
Standard Page
In this sub-panel, you can customize standard page, including:
Note: this change will be applied for all pages using “global settings”. You can also change settings for a specific page.
Sidebar layout
There are 3 sidebar layouts:
With Left and Right sidebar layout, you can choose sidebar content, change sidebar width, as well as enable sticky sidebar.
No sidebar
Left sidebar
Right sidebar
Sidebar content
With left and right sidebar layouts, you can pick up a sidebar content.
To create a new sidebar or change sidebar content, go to Widgets panel on Live Customizer, or go to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
Sidebar width
Sidebar width is in px. From 250 to 575px
Enable sticky sidebar
When enabled, your sidebar won’t be disappeared when scrolling mouse down.
This is how sticky sidebar works.
You can also customize widget styles.
“404” page
In this sub-panel, you can customize your page 404, including:
Content
Insert your content for the page 404. You can use HTML code here.
Show search form
Tick this checkbox if you want to display search form on page 404.
Styling
For background color, image, text size and color.
Gallery
In this panel, you can edit Archive Gallery or Single Gallery.
Archive Gallery
In this sub-panel, you can customize your gallery list page, including:
- Gallery slug
- Layout & thumbnail shape
- Columns
- Number of item per page
- Space between items
- Style
- Enable slider for thumbnail
- Enable full-width
- Enable filter & filter alignment
Gallery slug
Change gallery slug text
Layout &Thumbnail shape
- Layout: pick up a layout for gallery list
- Thumbnail shape: change shape for image thumbnails
Layout 1
Thumbnail shape #1
Thumbnail shape #2
Thumbnail shape #3
Layout2
Columns / Number of item per page
- Columns: pick up number of columns for gallery list
- Number of item per page: change number of image item per page
Space between items
Increase/decrease space between 2 items
Style
There are 2 styles for gallery item’s title.
Style 1
Style 2
Enable slider for thumbnail / Enable full-width
- Enable slider for thumbnail: enable or disable slider for image thumbnail
- Enable full-width: turn on full-width for gallery layout
Enable filter & filter alignment
Turn on gallery filter, then set alignment for filter. There are r3 filter alignment layouts:
Align Filter Left
Center Filter
Align Filter Right
Single Gallery
In this sub-pane, you can customize your single gallery item, including:
Layout/ Thumbnail shape
- Layout: pick up a layout for single gallery item
- Thumbnail shape: change thumbnail shape for gallery
Layout 1
Layout 2
Layout 3
Layout 4
Enable full-width
Turn on full-width for gallery layout
Columns
Pick up number of columns for gallery list
Space between items
Increase/decrease space between 2 items