Theme options

Theme Options is where you make your theme your own: your logo, an accent colour, what the home page says, where the sidebar goes and how listing pages behave. Every theme has its own set of options, and they are saved per theme, so switching themes and back again keeps them.

This guide covers Nova, the theme new marketplaces start on, in detail, then what is different in Marketplace and the older themes.

Change your theme options

1. In the admin panel, go to Design › Theme Options.
2. Pick a group in the list on the left, such as Homepage or Color.
3. Change the options you want. A bar appears at the bottom: Unsaved changes.
4. Click Save changes. You see Theme configuration updated.
5. Open your site in another tab and reload it to check the result.

Images (logo, favicon, hero picture…) are uploaded straight from this page. To take one away, click Remove under its preview. See Logo and favicon for sizes and formats.

Discard on the bottom bar throws away what you changed since the last save.

Nova options

Nova’s options are in five groups.

Layout

Setting	What it does
Display breadcrumb	Shows the “Home › Category › …” trail at the top of pages.
Where you want the sidebar to appear	Left side (default), Right side or None. The sidebar holds your sidebar widgets, or Nova’s filters on listing pages. None removes it everywhere.
Disable category counter badge	Yes hides the number of listings on the category tiles of the home page and on subcategory tiles.
Hide header and footer on single ad, user profile page and guest checkout page	Yes turns those pages into clean landing pages without your header, menu and footer. Useful when sellers share their listing or profile link as a “shop” page.
Numbers of categories to display in top navbar.	How many top-level categories appear in the category bar under the header (6 by default). The bar shows on every page except the home page, which has its own category tiles. Enter 0 to hide the bar.

General

Setting	What it does
Upload your Logo…	Your logo in the header. Without one, Nova shows your site name.
Upload your favicon…	The small icon in the browser tab.
Upload your apple-touch-icon…	The icon used when someone adds your site to a phone’s home screen.
The image that appears when someone shares your site to Facebook or Twitter…	The default picture for links to your site shared on social networks.
Upload your default profile image.	The picture shown for members who haven’t uploaded their own.
Header banner, allows HTML	HTML shown at the top of every page, under the header. See Banners and ad slots.
Footer banner, allows HTML	HTML shown at the top of the footer on every page.
Content shift right to left	For Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and other right-to-left languages. See Right-to-left languages.
Use Nova’s font, Plus Jakarta Sans…	Yes (default) uses Nova’s own font. No uses each visitor’s system font, which loads a little faster.
Facebook link, Twitter link, Instagram link	Full addresses of your social profiles. Each one you fill in adds an icon to the footer.

Homepage

Setting	What it does
Number of ads in the main homepage row (and in the “Just listed” row)	How many listing cards each home page row shows (8 by default).
Homepage Only Header, allows HTML	HTML shown on the home page only, just under the search area. Good for an announcement or a banner.
Enable categories section.	Shows your top-level categories as tiles, with their icons.
Hero Background Image…	A photo behind the big search area at the top of the home page (1920 × 640 px recommended). Without one, Nova uses a plain background.
Homepage headline	The big title above the search. Leave it empty to show Find it nearby. Sell it this weekend.
Text under the homepage headline	The line under the title. Leave it empty to show Buy and sell with people near you. Free to list, simple to use.
Headline of the “How it works” band	Leave it empty to show Buy and sell in three steps.
Show a “Just listed” row…	Adds a row of the newest listings when your main row shows featured, popular or random listings.
Show the “How it works” band.	A band explaining three steps for sellers and three for buyers.
Show the most popular locations.	A section with your busiest locations.
How it works - Sellers/Buyers - Step 1–3 title / subtitle	Your own text for each of the six steps. Leave a field empty to keep the built-in text.

Which listings fill the main home page row is not a theme option: it is Listings on the Home Page in Listings › Settings. See Your home page.

Leave the home page texts empty if your site is multilingual. Empty fields show Nova’s built-in texts, which are translated into each visitor’s language. Text you type here appears as typed, in every language.

Listing

Setting	What it does
Infinite scroll	Yes loads more listings automatically as visitors scroll down category and search pages, instead of showing page numbers.
Listing random position banner, allows HTML	HTML placed at a random spot among the listings on category and search pages.
On category and search pages, show Nova’s filters…	Nova’s own filters (keyword, category, location, price and your searchable custom fields) in the sidebar. They show only when the sidebar has no widgets.

If you add any widget to the Sidebar area, it replaces Nova’s filters on category pages. The search results page always keeps the filters (above your widgets) unless one of your widgets is a Search widget.

Color

Setting	What it does
Accent color for buttons, links and highlights…	Your brand colour, used for buttons, links and highlights across the site. Leave it empty for Nova’s green.
Hover color of the accent color…	The colour when the mouse is over a button. Leave it empty and Nova darkens your accent colour for you.

Buttons have white text, so pick an accent colour that is dark enough for white text to stay readable. Type a hex code such as #2B59F0, or click the field to use the colour picker.

Marketplace options

Marketplace (formerly Mercury) has most of Nova’s options, plus a few of its own:

Setting	What it does
Numbers of ads to display in home slider	How many listings the home page shows (21 by default).
Display slider in listing	A slider above category pages: None, Default, Featured or Featured Random.
Select your own color…	Your own main colour, with Hover color of custom color.
Footer Background Image	A picture behind the footer.
Primary Hero Action	Whether the home page leads with Buy or Sell.
Buy subtitle	The texts for the buy and sell side of the home page. Both fields carry this label: the first is the buy text, the second the sell text.

Marketplace does not have Nova’s “Just listed” row, popular locations, font choice or listing filters options.

Options in the older themes

The other themes each have their own list, but most share these:

Setting	What it does
Change the color scheme and style of the theme	Picks one of the theme’s built-in colour schemes.
Select the color that styles the mobile browser interface.	The colour of the browser’s address bar on phones.
Header tool bar gets fixed in the top / Fix header to top	Keeps the header visible while visitors scroll.
Default state for list/grid in listing	Whether category pages open as a list or a grid.
Body Font	The font used for text.
Display slider in listing and Numbers of ads to display in home slider	The listing sliders on the home page and category pages.
Hide page links on footer	Removes the links to your pages from the footer.
Infinite scroll, Display breadcrumb, banners, logo and favicon	As in Nova.

If you can’t find an option for what you want to change, custom CSS can usually do it.

Related guides

• Choose and change your theme — preview and switch themes.
• Your home page — the landing page and which listings it shows.
• Logo and favicon — image sizes and formats.
• Banners and ad slots — what to put in the banner fields.