Theme Options: the advanced settings panel - Verba

Theme Options is the settings panel the Pro plugin adds, at VerbaTheme Options. It is its own admin screen, separate from the Customizer.

This page lists which page holds what, and where each one is described in detail.

#How the panel is organized

Three levels, the same everywhere: a page in the left menu, tabs across the top of it, and groups of related settings inside a tab. Once you have that, every path in this documentation reads the same way: VerbaTheme OptionsGeneralSite means page, then tab, and then you scroll to the group.

Two behaviors differ from the Customizer:

Nothing is live. You change values, then press save.

Fields appear and disappear. Many settings are conditional and only show when the thing they depend on is switched on.

#The pages

General

Site-wide behavior and optimization, across two tabs. See General: site behavior and General: optimization.

Navigation

The header source, the menu, search, the posts ticker, and the marketing bar. See The header and Marketing bar.

Footer

Where the footer and the call to action above it come from, and the footer ticker. See The footer.

Archive

Everything about archives and the listings on them. See Advanced archives.

Single Post

The article page from header to footer, plus related posts and read also. See Set up the post page from scratch and the single post section.

Blog

How posts are presented site-wide, and the two global blocks: before you go and the floating card. See Blog: how posts are presented.

Integrations

Below the theme pages, one page for each installed integration that has settings, such as Mailchimp, Reviews, or Cookie Consent. Where integration settings live, and why some integrations have no page, is in How theme integrations work.

#How it relates to the Customizer

Theme Options is a separate store for what Pro adds. It does not override the Customizer, and it does not make the free settings obsolete.

The same name in both panels means two different settings. Width in the Customizer and width in Theme Options apply to different layouts, and editing one leaves the other alone.

Where a setting belongs to the free theme, Theme Options says so and links you back to the Customizer. Breadcrumbs are the clearest case: the Pro panel holds the source of the trail, while turning it on, the separator, and the home link stay in the Customizer.

Settings on one specific post or category beat the global values here. That is covered in Object-level settings.

#Questions

I saved a setting and nothing changed on the site

Check these in order. A page cache still serving the old HTML. The Source setting on that page, which may still be Native. A local field on that specific post overriding the global value. And the master toggle for the group, which may be off, in which case the setting is stored but not used.

Do my Theme Options survive a theme update?

Yes. They are stored as WordPress options, in the database, not in theme files. Updating the theme or the plugin does not touch them. To copy them to another site, see Exporting and importing your theme settings.

What happens to Theme Options if I deactivate Pro?

The panel disappears along with the features it configures, and the stored values stay in the database. Reactivate the plugin and your settings are there again.

Last updated 1 Oct 2026