Where every option lives

Every Stoat setting, the Customizer section it sits in, its default, and the page that explains it.

Stoat has no settings page of its own. Everything is in Appearance → Customize, plus four fields on the post, page and category edit screens.

Stoat’s sections sit below WordPress’s own in the Customizer list, in this order: Header, Archive, Single Post, Footer, Layout, Typography, Style, Misc — the parts of a page first, then the settings that cut across all of them.

Site Identity

WordPress’s own section, with two switches added.

Setting Default
Logo none Logo and site title
Site title site name
Display site title on Hide it when the logo already says the name
Tagline none Tagline
Display tagline on
Site Icon none Site icon
Setting Default
Header layout Logo left Header layout
Header skin Light Header colours
Header background color empty (follows the skin)
Header text color empty (follows the skin)
Header padding 1em Padding and border
Header border Light line
Display the social links on Social icons
Display the search icon on Header search
Button text empty (hides the button) Header button
Button link empty
Open the link in a new tab off
Button style Primary
When the reader is signed in Show the same button
Signed-in button text empty
Signed-in button link empty

Archive

Everything in this section applies to the blog listing, category and tag archives, author archives, date archives and search results.

Setting Default
Feature the first post off Featured first post
Show excerpt on What shows in a listing
Show excerpt “(more)” link on Excerpts
Show categories on Categories and author
Show date on
Show thumbnail on Thumbnails
Show comment count on
Category position Next to the meta
Show author off
Show author avatar on
Thumbnail ratio 1:1 square Thumbnails
Thumbnail width 100px
Thumbnail side Right
Excerpt length (words) 20 Excerpts

Single Post

Setting Default
Show featured image (top) off Featured image
Featured image width Content width
Show subtitle (top) on Subtitle
Show category (top) on Post meta
Show date (top) on
Show comment count (top) on
Show tags on Tags
Show comments on Comments
Category position Next to the meta Post meta
Show author (top) off
Show author avatar on
Setting Default
Show © + year on Copyright line
Copyright text empty
Keep theme credit on

Layout

Setting Default
Content width 1170px What the two widths measure
Narrow width 640px
Default width Narrow Narrow or full
Page default width Narrow
Post default width Narrow

Typography

Four grouped controls, one per type role. Every field in them is optional: leave one empty and the stylesheet’s own value stands.

Control Fields
Body font face, size (desktop / tablet / mobile), line height Body
Heading font face, weight, letter case, letter spacing, line height Headings
Navigation font face, size, weight, letter spacing, letter case Navigation
Logo font face, size (desktop / tablet / mobile), weight, letter spacing, letter case Site title

Style

Setting Default
Text color empty → #111111 Colours
Accent color #0000ee Accent colour
Background color empty → white
Meta text color empty → #767676
Selection color empty → the browser’s
Selected text color empty → the browser’s
Button border radius Square Button corner

Misc

Setting Default
Disable pages in search results off Search

Not in the Customizer

Four things live on an edit screen instead, because they belong to one entry rather than to the site.

Where What
Page editor → Page options Hide page title? Page options
Page editor → Page options Content width: Default / Narrow / Full
Post editor → Subtitle One line under the headline Subtitle
Category or tag edit screen Feature the first post: Inherit / Yes / No Featured first post

And two WordPress screens you will use with the theme:

Last updated September 13, 2026

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