Note: This is an advanced tutorial that requires you to access your site files!
TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:10: warning: this is an advanced tutorial!
- 01:19: preparing your dividers: file names
- 02:02: prepping your dividers: colors
- 02:38: prepping your dividers: square canvas
- 03:10: prepping your dividers: file format (SVG)
- 03:37: check out our premade dividers!
- 04:30: how to access your site files
- 06:30: uploading divider files using 3rd party plugin
- 10:19: using custom dividers on your pages
Step 1: Prepare Your Custom Divider(s)
- You can create 3 custom dividers. Save the file names as:
- custom-divider-a.svg
- custom-divider-b.svg
- custom-divider-c.svg
- Your design should be a solid colored shape, not a multicolored one.
- Put it on a SQUARE canvas.
- It will need to be a SVG file. You can convert a transparent PNG to a SVG using the third-party tool found here: https://convertio.co/png-svg/
- (Don’t want to make your own? Choose from our complimentary library of dividers!)
Step 2: Upload
- Access to your WordPress theme files via FTP, cPanel’s File Manager, or a third-party plugin like WP File Manager
- Navigation to the wp-content folder
- Create a new folder called “custom-assets” if you haven’t already
- Upload your custom divider files
Step 3: Use Your Custom Dividers On Your Site
- When you add a “separator block” to WordPress, choose one of the “custom dividers” in the “Styles” settings: