Misc and the admin
Customize → Misc
Two switches for people who would rather have the older screens back. Both are off by default.
- Enable classic editor — write posts and pages in the classic editor instead of the block editor.
- Enable classic widgets — use the classic widgets screen instead of the block-based one.
Neither needs a plugin. They are theme settings, so switching themes gives you WordPress’s own defaults back.
The other two settings in this section are about search.
Featured posts
The posts list in the admin carries a star column. Clicking a star marks a post as featured, and there is a matching checkbox in the post editor’s sidebar. The star saves without reloading the list.
The flag is stored as post meta and the theme exposes it as
fern_is_featured( $post ). The theme’s own templates do not currently
render featured posts any differently — the flag is there for you to query
against, from a child theme or a Query Loop filtered on the
_fern_featured meta key.
The posts list also gains a thumbnail column, so the featured images are scannable at a glance.
The Fern admin menu
Under Dashboard in the admin sidebar:
- Welcome — where the documentation, the demo and the changelog are gathered.
- Setup — the one-click page and menu builder. See Set up the site.
- Theme Settings — a shortcut into the Customizer.
- Info — the versions and limits the site is running on: WordPress, the database, the memory limit, the maximum upload size, whether this is a multisite, whether debug mode is on, and whether a child theme is active. Useful to have open when you are asking for support.
Nothing on those screens changes the site except Setup.