Appearance
The Appearance tab sets how ListoWP looks across your site – the default display mode and color scheme, the accent colors, and the date formats shown throughout the app. You will find it in wp-admin under ListoWP.
General
The General box sets the defaults a browser starts with. Both settings here only apply to a browser that has not made its own choice yet – each device remembers the user’s own last choice, and that stored choice always wins over these defaults.
Default display mode controls how the app sits in the page:
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Automatic | Inline where there is room; switches to fullscreen when the space the app is embedded in is narrow |
| Inline | The app stays inside the page |
| Fullscreen | The app fills the whole screen |
ListoWP ships with Inline.
Default color scheme sets the base theme:
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Automatic | Matches the style of the parent container the app sits in |
| Light | Always uses the light theme |
| Dark | Always uses the dark theme |
Colors
Accent color is the brand color used for highlights and controls throughout the app. There are two independent pickers – Light mode and Dark mode – so you can tune the accent separately for each theme. A color that reads well on a light background is rarely the best pick on a dark one, so each field has its own tuned default; leave a picker unset, or reset it, and ListoWP uses the built-in default for that scheme.
If you want the same accent in both themes, use the copy arrows on the Dark mode row to copy one value into the other.
Upgrading from 2.0? The old Separate accent for dark mode switch is gone, and your existing colors carry over unchanged. If you used a single accent for both themes before, that color now fills both pickers.
Date & Time
The Date & Time box controls how dates read across the app. There are two formats:
- Short – used on Tasks due this year.
- Long – used on Tasks due any other year, where the year is worth showing.
Both fields accept the same date format characters as the date settings in WordPress. The defaults are M j (for example "Aug 3") and M j, Y (for example "Aug 3, 2026").
Per-user overrides
These settings are the site-wide defaults. Every user can still switch display mode and theme for their own browser at any time: 8 toggles Inline and Fullscreen, Shift+8 returns to Automatic, 9 toggles Dark and Light, and Shift+9 matches the page again. The same shortcuts are listed in the app’s Preferences panel. Those choices are remembered per browser and are not synced to the user’s account, so they do not change what other people see.