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Customizer tour

Every setting Vara SaaS offers lives in one Customizer panel: Appearance → Customize → Vara SaaS. There is no theme options page, no setup screen to hunt through, and nothing to configure in a file. Screenshot: the full Customizer panel with all seven Vara SaaS sections listed

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The seven sections

Global Colors

Eleven brand colors. These propagate into Elementor’s global palette.

Typography

Base font family and base font size.

Layout

Container, navbar arrangement, sidebar switch, logo width, header CTA buttons.

General

Feature toggles — sidebar, scroll to top, page title, breadcrumbs, theme toggle.

Single Post

Post layout and which metadata is displayed.

Navigation Icons

Per-menu-item icons plus their size, spacing, and color.

Footer

Footer columns, logo, description, email, social icons, copyright.

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A note on the three custom controls

Three controls in this panel are not stock WordPress. Each was built for the theme: Screenshot: the footer social icon picker control showing a grid of Font Awesome icons

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The settings, at a glance

Every setting with its default value in one table.

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Global Colors

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Typography

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Layout

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General

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Single Post

The per-menu-item icon settings only appear once a menu is assigned to the Primary Menu location. Until then the section shows a notice instead.

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Input validation

Every setting is sanitized on save. You cannot put unexpected values into the database through the Customizer.

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Settings storage

All theme settings are stored as WordPress theme mods — the same mechanism WordPress uses for its own settings. This means:
  • They live in the database, not in theme files
  • They survive theme updates untouched
  • They are portable with a WordPress export
  • Switching themes removes them, which is correct behaviour
See Settings will not save if a setting appears not to persist.

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Where things are NOT

Some things people expect in a Customizer are not there, by design.
Use Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS, which is WordPress’s own control, or a child theme. See CSS and design tokens.
Layout is controlled globally in the Customizer, and per page through the Sidebar Settings box on pages. Single posts follow the global setting.

Header and menus

How the header actually works.

Dark mode

The one theme feature not in this panel.