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jerome@sgen.com 3 min read

Appearance

Theme and design-level administration. Appearance is the SG Admin area used to manage presentation-related settings, reusable theme behavior, and design-adjacent customization within the active site context.

Definition

Appearance is the design and theme administration family inside SG Admin. It affects presentation, reusable theme behavior, or theme-adjacent customization rather than day-to-day content entry. It should be understood as a site-level administrative area, not as the primary visual composition surface. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to define Appearance as the administrative layer for site presentation controls. It establishes which design-related settings belong here, how this area relates to SG Builder, and what kinds of outputs are expected from theme and appearance administration.

Scope

This page covers Appearance at the reference level. It does not provide design tutorials or step-by-step editing instructions. It defines the area as a configuration and administration surface for presentation-related site behavior.

Belongs to SG Admin as part of the site administration model.
Affects presentation, reusable theme behavior, and design-adjacent customization.
Does not replace SG Builder as the main visual composition environment.

Responsibilities

Appearance is responsible for the site’s theme-level and presentation-adjacent administrative controls.

Theme administration

Owns theme selection, theme-adjacent controls, and administration related to reusable presentation behavior.

Site presentation settings

Owns administrative settings that affect how the site presents itself at a theme or site-settings level.

Customization storage

Provides structured administrative surfaces for custom fonts, codes, CSS, and related helpers that influence presentation behavior.

Key elements

The Appearance section includes the following administration areas:

Themes
Theme Editor
Site Settings
Menu
Custom Fonts
Custom Codes
Custom CSS
Shortcodes Helper

These child pages define the theme and design-level administration family within SG Admin. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

Operational role

Operationally, Appearance acts as the configuration-facing presentation layer within SG Admin. It is the place where theme-level defaults, reusable presentation settings, and stored customization assets are administered in a structured way. It is not the primary environment for composing page layouts visually; that responsibility remains with SG Builder.

Constraints and boundaries

Appearance is a theme and design administration area. It should not be treated as a substitute for Builder or as a general content-management surface.

Use Appearance for theme-level administration and stored presentation customization.
Use SG Builder for layout composition and visual page assembly.
Use other SG Admin modules for content inventories, records, and operational settings unrelated to presentation.
Use Guides for procedures and task execution rather than surface definition.

Documentation guidance

Use this page as a reference definition. Task-by-task instruction, onboarding steps, or procedural walkthroughs should live in Guides, while product updates and shipped changes should live in What’s New or Changelog. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}

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