The Customizer is primarily used by classic themes to make changes to your site’s appearance. Many themes (but not all) include a “Content Options” setting to modify how your content is displayed. This guide will explain each option found in “Content Options”.
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The settings listed in this guide apply to classic themes. Sites using modern block themes have much more control over how content is displayed — refer to our Site Editor guide to learn how to edit all aspects of your website.
To access the Content Options:
If Content Options does not appear here, it means either:
- You are using a classic theme that does not include Content Options.
- You are using a block theme and can make all changes in the Site Editor instead.
Different classic themes may include different content options. The most common settings are explained below.
Choose between displaying the full content of each post or an excerpt on the blog page; category, tag, and date archive pages; and search results.
If you would like more control over where the “Read more” or “Continue reading” link is displayed, choose the “Full Post” option and then insert a More Block in the desired location on each post.
On the single post view in supported themes, you can display the name and bio of the post’s author. This information comes directly from the author’s profile. To hide the author’s bio, uncheck the box.
The post details section allows you to show or hide the post date, categories, tags, or the post author’s name. To hide any of these elements, uncheck its box. Keep in mind that certain themes only display some of these elements either on single posts or the blog page.
In supported themes, you can choose whether or not to display featured images on single posts and pages. You can also opt to display featured images on blog and archive pages, which include category, tag, and date archives, as well as search results pages. To hide featured images in any of these views, uncheck the box next to each item.
If you hide the featured image on single posts or pages, it will still be used as the sharing thumbnail on social media, as long as the image meets the social media service’s requirements for minimum size, etc.
In supported themes, you can automatically select the first image in your post or gallery as a Featured Image by checking the “Automatically use first image in post” box. Manually setting a featured image for a post will override any automatically added image. Uncheck this box to display manually added featured images.
