How to edit sites from Site library

[Robert]

Hello all!

I’m a new user and I have just installed Catalyst theme on my hosting. It looks nice, but obviously I would like to modify the theme and want to add more functionality. Under Pages, I select Home, but I don’t see too much option here:

Just only 4 columns/sections. When I click on the pencil/edit icon, I can modify the text only, nothing else. Why?

How can I customize the rest such as header background picture, increase column numbers, more call to action etc.?

Here I cannot see the customization options at all.

Thanks, appreciate any help!

[Leo]

Hi there,

The home page is Catalyst is using Sections + Lightweight Grid Columns which is the old way of doing layout like that.

Would you consider using Gutenberg + our newly released block plugin (currently in beta) Generate Blocks?
https://generateblocks.com/install/

You will be able to achieve the exact layout plus more.

Let me know 🙂

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Robert]

Thanks Leo,

it can be an option, yes I installed that. However I don’t want to recreate everything from scratch, is it possible to customize the existing homepage and add few more elements?

[Leo]

Yup for sure.

The header background image can be changed with that header element:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/header-element-overview/

Then you just need to add more sections to add more content. See more on how to use Sections here:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/sections-overview/

Just note that the author of Catalyst has converted the site to Generate Blocks and we will be re-uploading it once the official version of Generate Blocks is released.

I would recommend waiting for that if you aren’t in a rush 🙂

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Robert]

In the meantime, I checked GenerateBlocks and it’s awesome! It’s very easy to reproduce any sites, just the global headers is tricky, but the rest is easy-peasy! Thanks for it! Is there any way to get the GB converted Catalyst somehow? 🙂

[Leo]

Is there any way to get the GB converted Catalyst somehow?

I think you missed my reply above:

Just note that the author of Catalyst has converted the site to Generate Blocks and we will be re-uploading it once the official version of Generate Blocks is released.

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

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