The Advanced area of Theme Settings holds the options that configure Rey itself rather than the look of your website: spam protection, third-party integrations, which content types get Rey’s per-page settings, and a few WordPress admin preferences.
You will find it in Rey → Settings → Advanced. It has four sections.
ReCaptcha
Adds Google reCAPTCHA to your login, registration, lost-password, comment and WooCommerce forms. You choose the version (v2 checkbox or v3 invisible), paste in your Google keys, and pick which forms are protected.
This section is fully covered in its own article: Built-in reCAPTCHA module.
Note: reCAPTCHA is a module. If the section is missing from Advanced, enable reCAPTCHA under Rey → Modules first.
Integrations
Instagram access token
The access token Rey’s Instagram widget uses to pull your feed. Without it the widget has nothing to display.
The field itself explains how to obtain a token, and once one is saved the section shows a Refresh token button. Instagram tokens expire, so refresh yours before it lapses, otherwise the feed stops updating.
Full walkthrough: Add Instagram Feeds.
Page Settings
Rey adds a Page Settings panel to the WordPress editor, where you override the header, footer, page cover, title display and more for that one page. This section controls where that panel appears and who can see it.
- Supported post types: which post types get the panel. Pages, posts and products are enabled by default. Add your own custom post types here if you want Rey’s per-page overrides on them.
- Supported taxonomies: the same, for term pages such as categories, tags and product categories.
- Visible to role: restrict the panel to a specific user role. Use this to keep layout controls away from editors or shop managers who should only be writing content.
What the panel actually contains is documented in Settings for individual Page / Post / Taxonomy / Category.
Removing a post type here hides the panel, it does not delete anything. Overrides already saved on those pages stay in the database and apply again as soon as you re-enable the post type.
Admin
Preferences for the WordPress admin area itself. None of these affect the front end of your website.
Show the ACF admin menu
Rey bundles Advanced Custom Fields, and this shows or hides its Custom Fields menu in the admin sidebar. Turn it on when you need to create your own fields, though bear in mind that custom fields you add yourself need code to be displayed. Turn it off to keep the menu tidy.
See Adding ACF fields inside pages.
Use the block-based Widgets screen
WordPress ships a block editor for widgets. Rey turns it off by default and restores the classic drag-and-drop screen, which is more predictable with the theme’s sidebars. Switch this on if you prefer the block version.
Hide admin menu links
Hides individual entries from the Rey admin menu: Demo Import, Modules, Elements and Plugins. Useful when handing a finished site to a client who should not be importing demos or disabling features.
Note: This tidies the menu; it is not a permissions system. Anyone who can reach the URL directly still can. For proper restriction use a role/capability plugin, and see White Label if you want to rebrand Rey entirely.
Debug mode
Makes Rey write extra diagnostic messages to your logs. Leave it off on a live site and switch it on when you are chasing a problem, or when we ask you to while investigating a ticket. It turns on automatically whenever WordPress’s own WP_DEBUG is enabled, regardless of this toggle.
See Debugging problems.
Enable Taxonomies for Global Sections
Adds categories and tags to Global Sections, so you can organise them once you have built a lot of headers, footers and covers. Off by default, because most sites never need it.
Enable Periodic banners
Controls whether Rey may occasionally show a notice in your admin: a new release, a survey, an announcement. Switch it off for a completely quiet admin.
Where did the old Settings page go?
Older versions of Rey had a separate Rey → Settings screen holding font and miscellaneous options. Those options now live inside Theme Settings. See Rey › Settings (old backend page): where its options moved for the exact mapping.