What can I do with Accept Builder?
Here's an overview of the Accept Builder plugin, and details of what you can do with it.
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Here's an overview of the Accept Builder plugin, and details of what you can do with it.
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The Accept Builder plugin is a front-end layout and style designer that gives you a graphical view of the content area as you develop it. Starting with one of the Accept Builder layout templates or a blank page, you can easily modify and add content modules in complex arrangements of rows and columns, as shown in this example:
When you create a new WordPress Page, you'll see the Accept Builder launch button on posts and pages for which the WordPress Standard (block) editor is enabled.
You'll also see the Accept Builder tab on posts and pages for which the WordPress Standard editor is disabled.
On the editing page, you'll see the Accept Builder admin bar at the top of the screen. Click the Plus icon on the upper right side, and do any of the following to get started.
Start with a content layout for the page and modify it. Click the Templates tab and click any template to insert it. Choose a different template type in the Group field for more choices. See this article on layout templates for more information.
Add one or more prebuilt row layouts and modify them. Click the Rows tab, in the Group field select Prebuilt rows, then choose a category and drag your selection into the layout. See this article on prebuilt rows.
Design your content from scratch by dragging individual modules into the content area. Click the Modules tab and drag a module into the layout. See descriptions of each module and see the next section for more information about designing layout structure.
When you drag content modules from the Content panel to the layout, the rows and columns are automatically created. As your layouts become more complex, with child columns, sometimes it's easier to drag in row layouts first, then drag content modules into them.
For example, here is a single row with three column groups, which can be thought of as rows within rows.
For more information about how columns work, see the column layouts overview.
In the screenshot above, all three column groups are inside a single row, but you could also put each column group into a different row, as shown in this screenshot:
What determines when you start a new row in your layout? See the article on working with rows for some considerations.
Accept Builder makes layouts look good on medium devices (tablets) and small devices (mobile) with no extra effort on your part. You can check the layout and tweak settings at each device size by entering Responsive Editing Mode inside your layout.
For more information about responsive editing settings, start with this overview article on responsiveness.
You can save rows and modules globally, so that any change you make in one place is reflected everywhere, or you can save the rows and modules so you can reuse them but can modify them differently in each location. Or you can save the entire layout as a layout template, which you can use on any other page of your site or export for use on another site.
WordPress requires use of a theme to control areas of the page like the header, footer, and sidebar areas. Themes allow you some degree of customization of appearance in these areas.
The Accept Builder Theme has many layout and style options to control theme areas of the page, on both large screens and smaller devices. All theme settings are made in the WordPress Customizer, which you can access from the Appearance menu in the WordPress admin panel. The Accept Builder Theme has customizations for the following general categories:
Presets, which apply built-in styling to the page if you don't want to customize all the theme settings yourself.
Layout and styling of the header (top bar, header, nav bar), footer (widgets and footer bar), and sidebar.
Layout and options for blog archives, single posts, and WooCommerce.
Default style settings for Accept Builder, such as accent color, heading and text fonts, and buttons.
A section where you can add code to the head or body of your pages.
The header contains two separate areas:
The top bar, an optional strip above the header, which can contain one or two columns.
The main header, which includes the logo and the nav area with a number of choices of layout. Some header choices allows separate styling of the nav area.
The footer also contains two separate areas, each optional:
The main footer, similar to the top bar in allowing one or two columns.
The footer widgets area, which appears above the footer.
Here's a diagram showing the header and footer subareas.
The sidebar is optional but if enabled, it will appear on every archive and post page, and also on any individual page when you set the WordPress template setting to display it.
Note that by default there is only one sidebar in Accept Builder Theme, whose widget content will appear wherever you enable it (all Posts or individual Pages). You can't customize the sidebar widgets differently for individual posts and pages unless you use a third-party plugin or write code. Another way to customize the sidebar is to use the Accept Builder plugin to create a Sidebar module in your content layout.
Accept Builder Theme lets you set some of the defaults for Accept Builder layouts. This saves time and makes it easy to get conformity in your page layouts site-wide unless you choose to override that behavior.
Here are some Accept Builder Theme settings that apply to Accept Builder layouts:
Accent color Sets the default color of both Theme and Accept Builder links and buttons.
Headings Sets the default font family, size, and other font properties of headings in the content area.
Text Sets the default font family, size, and other font properties of non-heading text in the content area.
Background Sets a background color or image for the entire content area.
Lightbox Controls the default behavior or whether images open in a lightbox when clicked.
Current year shortcode The theme has a shortcode that automatically inserts the current year, both in theme areas of the page and in Accept Builder and Accept Themer layouts.
