Courtside integrates with the WordPress Customizer (Appearance → Customize) for colours, layout, header, and logo configuration. Customizer changes update live in the preview pane and apply across the site once published.
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In the Site Identity section:
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The logo is rendered in the header's branding section.
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The Colors section exposes:
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The Primary colour drives buttons, accents, and highlighted UI. The Link colour applies to inline anchor tags. Heading and text colours apply across all body content.
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If you change the primary or link colour, the change cascades through SportsPress league tables, calendars, and player profile pages because the SportsPress template overrides inherit the theme's colour variables.
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The Layout section exposes:
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Header configuration is split between Customizer settings and theme code:
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For Courtside, the default header sections are: (uses Rookie framework default sections).
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Widget areas are registered in framework.php (or functions.php) and exposed under Appearance → Widgets. Each theme registers between 3 and 12 sidebars covering the primary content sidebar, footer columns, and SportsPress-specific sidebars (e.g. for team pages).
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The cleanest way to add custom CSS is via Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS. This stores CSS in the database and survives theme updates. For larger CSS or PHP changes, use a child theme.
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To make code-level changes safely:
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Custom templates and functions.php overrides go in the child theme. Parent theme files are loaded automatically as fallbacks.
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