Most WordPress sites look the same to every visitor. With the Nextora preset switcher, yours doesn’t have to. It’s a small floating button that lets each visitor restyle the site in one click, choosing between ready-made color and font presets, and it takes about a minute to turn on. This post covers what the switcher does, what your visitors can pick from, and exactly how to enable the mode, no technical background required.
What the preset switcher is
A preset is a ready-made look: a palette of colors, a set of fonts, or both combined. The preset switcher is a built-in feature of the Nextora WordPress theme, a free open-source block theme from BePlus. When the mode is on, visitors see a small floating button on the page. Click it and a tidy panel opens with three sections: Themes, Colors, and Fonts. Pick anything and the change applies instantly across headings, buttons, backgrounds, and links.
Preset switching happens entirely in the browser. There’s no request to your server, no database write, and no effect on your caching. Each visitor’s choice is saved on their own device, so your default design stays exactly as you made it for everyone else.
What your visitors can switch
Themes. A theme is a complete look: a color palette plus a font pairing, applied with one click. The Education theme, for example, pairs rounded, friendly fonts (Fredoka for headings, Nunito for body text) with a soft palette. Where a theme is available, a single tap changes everything at once.
Color presets. Single palettes that recolor the whole site. Nextora ships with Midnight, Lime, Peach, and Warm Sand, covering moods from deep and dark to bright and playful. Each preset swaps the theme’s colors everywhere they’re used.
Font presets. Typography-only switches: Classic, Modern, Elegant, and Mono. Choose Elegant and headings shift to a serif display face while body text goes lighter; choose Mono and the whole site takes on a technical, typewriter feel.
Visitors can mix and match, too, pairing a Midnight palette with an Elegant font stack, or grab a theme that bundles both.
How to turn the preset switcher on
Here’s the entire setup: one line in one file, done once.
Find your
wp-config.phpfile. Every WordPress site has one, sitting in the root folder of your installation. Your host’s file manager (cPanel and similar) or an FTP tool like FileZilla can open it. It’s a plain-text file — don’t be put off by the PHP code inside; you won’t touch any of it. WordPress’s own wp-config.php documentation explains where the file lives if you get stuck.Add one line. Just above the line that reads
/* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */, insert this:define( 'NEXTORA_COLOR_SCHEME_SWITCHER', true );- Save and refresh. Upload the file if you edited it locally, then reload your site. The floating switcher button appears, and that’s it.
That’s the whole “installation.” No plugin to install, no settings page to hunt for, nothing else to configure. The switcher ships inside the theme; this line simply switches the mode on.
What your visitors will see
- A floating button appears on every page, for everyone, logged in or not.
- Choices stick. If a visitor picks Warm Sand, they still see it on their next visit.
- The look is shareable. The panel includes a Copy link button. The link carries the chosen preset, so anyone who opens it sees the same look — handy when you want to send a client a preview of a color direction.
- One-click reset. Each section has its own Default option, and a global Reset returns everything to your original design.
Why you’d want it
A preset switcher suits sites that want one design to serve several moods: a portfolio showing a client different color directions, a shop that lets shoppers dim the lights, a seasonal campaign that goes dark around the holidays and bright and airy in summer. It also helps people who prefer dark or high-contrast palettes — no browser extension required.
The honest trade-off: this is a visitor-facing nicety, not a ranking factor. It won’t change your SEO, and each person’s choice lives in their own browser, not in an account. Because the switcher recolors the theme’s palette, a block with a hardcoded custom color won’t be affected — a rare edge case, but worth knowing.
Quick answers
Do I need a plugin? No. It’s built into the Nextora theme.
Do I need to be a developer? No. The setup is one line in a settings file. If editing files feels risky, ask your host or any WordPress-savvy friend — it’s a two-minute job.
Will it slow my site down? No. With the mode off, nothing is loaded at all. With it on, a tiny script runs entirely in the browser.
Get started
The preset switcher ships with Nextora, a free, performance-focused WordPress theme you can grab from BePlus Labs or from the GitHub repository. New to the theme? The FAQs page covers common setup questions, and the blog has deeper coverage, including a full rundown of the 37 blocks that ship with the theme. Add the one line above and your site goes from one look to many, starting today.
