An introduction to your CMS Menu Settings

This article will take you briefly through the main WordPress left-side navigation:

Dashboard

The homepage and overview of your WordPress CMS.

Posts

Create News, Blogs and Offers posts (or your own custom post category) to keep your customers engaged at the same time as creating new content for your website which is good for SEO benefits.

Media

The central library for all your media files, including photos, videos or file downloads. Upload your files via the upload button or drag them directly from your desktop.

Pages

The full page list of your website. Edit/remove default pages or add new pages that you can add to your menus. Click to enter individual page settings or use the Quick Edit feature to do simple updates.

Comments

Comments on blog and offer posts are disabled on Riviera as they encourage spam. These can be turned on if you have a preference of engaging with customers.

GDPR Cookie Consent

Configuration of GDPR settings has been set up to meet the EU legislation so this area should only need visiting if you wish to change the color schemes of the cookie optin popup.

Appearance

This has several sub-menus included. The three you will covering will be:

Customize
These are a set of top-level WordPress style and display settings that will feed through the the Divi Page Builder. It will be an important start to the process of customization.

Menus
The location of each menu situated on the website including main header, footer, local area and property page menus. Add any new pages you have created or re-arrange the order as preferred via drag-and-drop.

Widgets
You will use widgets to customise sidebars that feature on news/offers posts and archive, category and search results pages. We have set these up as recommended.

Profile

The set up of your WordPress account profile which includes password reset.

365Villas

The settings for our plugin that connects your 365Villas account and properties via our API. Here you will manage the colors and format of your property listings and property page information that pulls through from our API.

Bloom

The settings for syncing your 3rd party email marketing account, so you can capture new contacts and save them directly to your mailing list.

Divi

The home of the WordPress Theme Builder has two sub-setting pages you will be covering:

Theme Options
The central extensive settings for the Divi – you will need this to set your main site logo and select up your default color palette for use in the builder.

Theme Builder
The Theme Builder uses the same page builder used to construct page content. This is a template library featuring the header, footer and other page templates in Riviera. You will have access to make style updates where needed.

That covers every menu you will be using as you customise your site and maintain it moving forward. Now let’s make a start, as we visit the logical order of steps, start with the Site Divi Settings.