Blog Posts
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Show the author field in each blog post.
Also trying to work out how to link to a list of all my blog posts, but with each post as a condensed version with ‘Read More’. At the moment I’m just linking to my whole Blog Roll in one long list from my main menu.
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The point of displaying an author name is to differentiate the posts on a multi-author site. Many themes don’t display the author byline unless there is more than one official user on the site. See here https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#author
Regardless of the theme, and provided the theme is designed to display an author, bylines will only display now if there are at least two authors, who both have at least one published post in the blog. There’s a single author workaround here.
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/wordpress-com-changes-bylines-for-authors/Very few themes have an author profile with a gravatar that displays below every post. The data is derived from here > Dashboard > Users > My Profile > About You (section) and anything you add there appears on your Gravatar profile page as well.
If the author profile does not appear on the live demo site for your theme then it is not a feature provided by that theme.
Every theme has a detailed theme description page with set-up instructions and a live demo site. Here’s an example of the detailed theme description page here https://wordpress.com/themes/sela/ and a live demo site here https://selademo.wordpress.com/
Note that your theme does not provide the ability to eliminate the read more excerpt.
Switching themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site. Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you have done any CSS editing.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.
The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.
For uploading images into posts and pages see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/adding-images-to-posts-or-pages/
For troubleshooting images see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/troubleshooting-images/
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At the moment I’m just linking to my whole Blog Roll in one long list from my main menu.
A blogroll is a listing of other blogs you link to. It’s not for linking to posts that you publish in your own blog. https://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/
This is your Home page https://themissnicolina.wordpress.com/
This is your Admin dashboard page https://themissnicolina.wordpress.com/wp-admin
All support docs are at https://support.wordpress.com/
Type static front page into the search box and click https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=static+front+page
Results Set a Static “Home” Page (Front Page)
https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all 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, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. Create your pages first
Front page:
Posts page:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/After you do that you go to > Dashboard > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/The Reading page is here http://confessionsofapom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page:
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