These are simple instructions on how to customize Ashford using settings found on the Theme Options. You can modify a few Ashford colors using the Theme Options panel. If you follow the following instructions, you will have modified Ashford’s basic color scheme.
Sample palettes
Dashboard → Appearance → Ashford Options
Select a color palette, enter the following hexadecimal values into the corresponding settings.
Tan
- #59544E - Background
- #FFFFFF – Page
- #BD5A46 – Link
- #BD5A46 – Navigation menu link
- #F0F8FF – Link hover
- #FFFFFF – Footer link
Wine
- #542437 - Background
- #FFFFFF – Page
- #C02942 - Link
- #C02942 - Navigation menu link
- #F0F8FF – Link hover
- #FFFFFF – Footer link
‡Note: In Ashford v0.5 and earlier, the “Links” setting did NOT get applied to the link color in the navigation menu. To change these links, you had to customize the style.css. In all releases after v0.6, if you change the “Links” setting, it will also apply the navigation menu links.


