Better Theme?
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I’m quite discouraged. Gateway was so far best but now I fear all the work was mostly for nothing. The header of normal pages in Gateway is hopeless. Just the coloured band and the logo (which works good on the home page featured image but not good on that solid background). It’s much worse than what I now have with TwentyTen in that respect.
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I tried making the other normal pages also Home Templet pages. That enables the featured image. But I have to forget about Gateway anyway. The big problem is that the Homepage Template is very wasteful.
It does not produce a friendly site because if you use the Home Page Template, everytime you load that page, you need to scroll before you get to the interesting stuff. It maybe look OK, but its user experience is poor for that reason.
So, I must look for a template that wastes much less room at the top (most templates waste too much room and thus have a poor ‘you have to scroll all the time’ experience.
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I’ve been looking around again and there is something that I do not get. Why does the example Gateway have a reasonably short-height featured image and takes my featured image on the Home Page Template so much space? Is it something about my image?
And is there a template that:
– has a short height featured image on top (like TwentyTen)? (Why are all templates so wasteful with headers and menus that every reader has to scroll before anything specific of a page appears)?
– supports button and button-minimal? -
Hi there,
Why does the example Gateway have a reasonably short-height featured image and takes my featured image on the Home Page Template so much space? Is it something about my image?
The content that’s added within the section has some impact on how much space the featured image takes up. The two buttons that you have stacked on top of another will therefore increase the size and, together, take up more room that the one button on Gateway’s demo site.
And is there a template that:
– has a short height featured image on top (like TwentyTen)? (Why are all templates so wasteful with headers and menus that every reader has to scroll before anything specific of a page appears)?
– supports button and button-minimal?The best suggestions I have here are the ones we’ve gone through previously: Radcliffe 2, Shoreditch, and Sequential. Out of those three suggestions, Radcliffe 2 and Shoreditch will display a page’s featured images in the header area.
If you’re open to purchasing a theme then some Premium themes that may work for you include The Four and Forefront.
If you can’t find a theme that works well for you within the WordPress.com repository, you could consider look through third-party WordPress theme shops or even setting up a child theme so that you can tweak the code of our existing theme. There are two options for installing a third-party or child theme:
1. You can upgrade to WordPress.com Business. It’s possible to upload third-party themes under our Business plan.
2. You could move your site to a different host, such as Pressable, and install the free software available at WordPress.org. It’d then be possible for you to install third-party themes.
Hope those available options are clear.
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I was planning to move to a paid plan anyway if the new site is OK. I’ll probably upgrade to Premium this weekend and see what I can establish with advanced CSS editing and/or Forefront.
Aside: what happens if I have just paid for domains for another year and I move to a premium plan and move those domains to that site? Money just paid for domain gone?
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Hi there,
The cost of your domain will be automatically taken into account when you upgrade to a plan. So, for example, you’d be charged €79 instead of €99 if you upgraded to WordPress.com Premium.
Do let us know if you do upgrade and have questions on setting up Forefront or CSS.
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Actually it was €99, but that was of course because I haven’t moved the domains yet. I can only move the domains when the layout actually works.
So, now I have to learn how to tweak CSS. I have a basic understanding of CSS, but the whole setup is sizeable and complex. Let’s say there are two things I want to change in the current Gateway Theme) setup.
- The height of the image (with the text and buttons overlap) on the home page
- The Logo used on the “ArchiMate Book” page
I’m using Safari (with Developer menu enabled)
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Wanting this done, I have tried several other themes and Fortune did most of what I wanted.
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Thanks so much for providing the links to those threads @timethief!
@gctwnl: I’ve answered your question about Gateway’s header image here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gateway-theme-make-home-page-header-imagearea-less-high
If you have any further questions on customising Forefront (the theme you’ve since switched to) then please start a new thread on the CSS forum or contact us via our contact form.
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