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How to Customize Colors and Fonts in the Kadence Theme

24 threads Sep 10, 2025 Theme → Kadence

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Customizing the look and feel of your website is a common task, and the Kadence theme provides a powerful set of tools to do just that. However, users often run into specific challenges when trying to change colors and fonts for elements like navigation menus, buttons, and text blocks. This guide will walk you through the most common issues and their solutions.

Common Color and Font Customization Issues

Based on community discussions, users frequently encounter the following scenarios:

  • Navigation menu font color not updating.
  • Button colors and shadows not applying consistently.
  • Difficulty changing the default styles of specific blocks like Advanced Text or buttons.
  • Needing to apply unique styles to individual menu items or widgets.

1. Changing Navigation Menu Colors

The Kadence theme offers several header types: Default, Transparent, and Sticky. If you change a color setting in the customizer but see no effect, it's likely you are modifying the wrong header type.

Solution: Ensure you are editing the correct header configuration.

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Header.
  • Select the header type you are using (e.g., Transparent Header).
  • Click on the Design tab and locate the Navigation Colors section to change your menu font colors.

2. Styling Individual Menu Items or Widgets

There may be times when you want a single menu link or widget to have a unique color, different from the global settings.

Solution: Use Custom CSS Classes.

  • In the WordPress Menu editor, open a specific menu item and add a custom CSS class to it (e.g., menu-link-red).
  • Then, navigate to Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS.
  • Add your custom CSS rule. Important: When targeting menu items, the correct selector does not include a space or a tag. For example: 
    .menu-link-red { color: #b93054; }
  • For widgets, look for the Block/Advanced section in the block settings to add a custom CSS class and then style it with Additional CSS.

3. Ensuring Consistent Button Styles

Buttons in the header builder and buttons within your page content are controlled by different settings. A shadow applied to global buttons will not automatically apply to a button placed in your header.

Solution: Configure header buttons separately.

  • Edit your header via Appearance > Customize > Header > Header Builder.
  • Click the cogwheel icon on the button component.
  • Navigate to the Design tab to configure shadows, colors, and other styles specifically for that header button.

4. Changing Default Block Settings (Advanced Text Block)

Blocks like the Advanced Text block have their own default settings, which you can customize for your entire site to save time.

Solution: Set block defaults.

  • Edit a page and add an Advanced Text block.
  • Configure it exactly how you want it to appear by default (e.g., change it from H2 to Paragraph, set a medium font size, or choose a new highlight color).
  • In the block settings, look for the option to Set as default or Save as default. This will apply these settings to all new Advanced Text blocks you create.

When All Else Fails: Basic Troubleshooting

If you are certain you are editing the correct settings but changes are still not visible, a conflict might be the cause.

  • Clear Caches: Clear any caching on your site, including server-level, plugin, and browser caches.
  • Conflict Test: Temporarily deactivate all plugins except Kadence Blocks (if used). If the issue is resolved, reactivate your plugins one by one to identify the culprit.
  • Theme Conflict: Temporarily switch to a default WordPress theme like Twenty Twenty-Four to see if the issue persists. If it does, the problem is not with the Kadence theme.

By following these steps, you should be able to overcome the most frequent obstacles faced when customizing your Kadence-powered website. For more specific issues, the community on independent forums like this one is a great resource for finding shared solutions.

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