More control over Twenty Seventeen

Options for Twenty Seventeen Premium adds advanced modification options to the default Twenty Seventeen WordPress theme. It is intended for site owners who want to adjust the theme’s layout, appearance, front page sections, header media, navigation, content areas, and footer without being limited to the default presentation.

The premium options create on the theme-focused controls available for the site, including adjustments to page widths, colors, borders, branding, images, menus, titles, links, and footer components.

Front page and layout options

Premium controls help shape the front page and blog presentation. Add more sections to a static front page, enable featured images in the front page section blog, and set the height of front page section parallax images. You can also add anchor links for static front page sections to your menus.

• Force blog and search pages to display as one column.
• Add widget areas below page titles.
• Add “Back to top” links.
• Fix the “Back to top” link to the bottom right of the browser window.
• Automatically make post excerpts on home and archive pages.
• Set the maximum number of words used for excerpts.

Images, parallax, and video

Adjust the way visual media appears across the theme. Premium options can add a true parallax effect to front page section featured images, remove the parallax effect, or apply true parallax to the cover picture. You can set the height of the home page header image and use a featured image as the header image while showing the full-size header image.

Additional controls let you conceal the header image everywhere except the home page, hide site branding on other pages, and pick and style a page background image. For header video, you can hide the YouTube video until it has loaded, pause it when the visitor scrolls, and disable looping of an MP4 header video.

Branding, widgets, and typography

Use a widget sidebar in the header area and add a widget area below page titles to give important content more visibility. You can also hide the site title and description outside the home page. The premium options include preventing the Libre Franklin Google font from loading to increase page speed.

The broader theme controls include changing the site, header, navigation, content, and footer widths; setting background colors; styling the site title and description; aligning branding; and changing colors for paragraphs, headings, links, menus, and footer elements.

Theme-specific refinements

Options are provided for common Twenty Seventeen presentation details. You can remove the main menu scroll-down arrow, control sticky menu width, remove the mobile menu label, change menu padding, style the menu background, rotate submenu arrows, and adjust content spacing.

Other controls address featured image borders, page and archive titles, post metadata, tag and category links, post navigation, footer branding, and the theme’s header image and cover presentation. A social network menu can be displayed in content with the [social-links] shortcode.

Getting started

Use the plugin with the Twenty Seventeen theme, then review the available premium options and choose the layout, branding, media, navigation, and content changes required for the site. Apply options gradually so you can compare the front page, blog, search pages, header, and footer as you personalize them.