Site Default Images
What it helps you do
New blocks start with one of your site's own photos instead of an unrelated stock photo. Add a Hero and it already shows a photo from your brand, so a page looks finished sooner and nothing goes live with a stranger's picture by mistake.
Where to find it
- Appearance → Customize → Settings → General → Default Images: the photos in the set, with Add Images and a remove button on each.
- Theme Setup fills the set for you on its Content step.
How to use it
- Open Default Images in the Customizer.
- Click Add Images, pick photos in the Media Library, and click Add Images again. Remove one with the × on its thumbnail.
- Click Publish.
- Add a block in the editor. It starts with the next photo from the set.
What happens automatically
- A new Hero, Photo Feature, Vignette, Media Strip or Quote Blocks block starts with a photo from the set, as if you had picked it yourself. Change or remove it the usual way.
- Section, Landing Page, Link in Bio and Page Blocks panels start with a colour background. Switch one to the Image background without picking a photo and it takes one from the set.
- A new page's starting blocks get photos too, until the page is first saved.
- Each block takes a photo no other block on the page uses yet. Once every photo is on the page, they repeat in order.
- One Undo takes back the new block, or the background switch, together with its photo.
- Theme Setup's Content step puts the photos it uses on the sample pages in the set: your own photos first, topped up with sample photos to make five. Running Theme Setup again replaces the set when it makes a page with photos (Home, About, Contact or Showcase); a run that only makes Blog, the legal pages or menus leaves it as it is.
Things to know
- Blocks already on your pages never change. A block with no photo keeps showing what it shows today.
- Copied, duplicated and pasted blocks, and blocks from patterns, keep the photo they came with (or none).
- With no photos in the set, new blocks start without a photo, as before.
- Photos you delete from the Media Library drop out of the set.
- The set lives on this site only. Exporting theme settings doesn't include it, because the photos belong to this site's Media Library.
