Achieving Motif Demo Homepage Layout on My Site's Homepage
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Hello there,
I was wondering if anyone could help.
I’m working with the Motif theme. There’s a picture of two men working at a computer on the home page of the WordPress Motif Theme demo site: http://motifdemo.wordpress.com/
I have a small picture of a stage/TV light on the home page of my site at the moment: http://spectralmotif.org/
I’d like my picture to be the same size and be positioned in the same way on my homepage as the picture of the two men is on the WordPress Motif demo site. I’d also like to overlay a quote in the same way as has been done on the demo site – there it says: ‘This is the Front Page title’ etc.
I’m not writing code so I’d like to achieve this in a ‘novice-friendly’ way through the admin part of the WordPress site, which, for me, is at https://spectralmotif.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php
Any advice on this gratefully received.
Many thanks in advance.
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Looks like the first thing you need to do is set a static homepage as your front page, which you can do following the guide here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/Once that’s done, apply the Front Page template to your new front page via the Page Attributes box, and add a Featured Image that’s at least 1140px wide.
In case you didn’t see it, there’s a full setup guide for Motif that has more details:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/motif/
If you get stuck at any step just let me know and I’ll be glad to help.
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Thanks very much for this – I’ve now managed to achieve the layout I was looking for.
All the best.
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Thanks for this thread. It was really helpful. Here’s a stupid question. Once I’ve set up the home page as you describe above, how do I incorporate a blog section into the website?
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You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) A static front page and posts on a different page.By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, or you are using a theme with a Front Page Template then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts.
To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
Front page:
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Thank you so much for getting back to me. I appreciate it! Your instructions were perfect. All set!
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