confusion about Illustratr

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  ninarobinson720 · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 12:22 am

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  I’m using the Illustratr theme but it looks nothing like the preview of it. I liked it because it shows all your posts in a gridlike formation where you can click on them for the full article. When I click on my blog it just seems to show them as huge articles one underneath the other, also the pictures look so big that a the image it cut off, maybe thats the file size I don’t know?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  tallertopotesia · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 2:13 pm

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  I have the same problem as you, nina. It looks nice but without the top sidebar isn´t useful for me :(
  We hope someone knows the solution ;)

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  ninarobinson720 · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 2:29 pm

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  I think the grid formation is just for pages/portfolio? I’m not sure I’m very confused. I’m new to wordpress! I wan’t a nice looking blog rather than website/portfolio with a blog attached so maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree? My problem is I want my posts to be in grid form in the way the portfolio page is laid out…

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  tallertopotesia · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 4:05 pm

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  I dont know how it runs, but maybe it would be easy if you want a grid to use another theme, previously designed for that. That´s the solution to dummies as we, haha.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 4:07 pm

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  Here’s the detailed theme description with set-up instructions: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/illustratr/

  Here are the relevant support doc links:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/

  Portfolio Shortcode

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  ninarobinson720 · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 4:16 pm

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  I’m sorry I’ve definitely been to those links a good few times and they don’t answer my question.
  I want to click on my site as a blog and see the POSTS lay out in a grid formation, which is what I thought this theme did. The grid format is only for portfolio right? which is fixed.
  What i’d like in an idea world is to have a clean simple site that I can run in the style of an online mag or at least a slick looking blog…

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  timethief · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 4:22 pm

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  Illustratr is a minimalist portfolio theme that helps you create a strong — yet beautiful — online presence. Primarily crafted for designers and photographers, it is a simple, powerful, and flexible theme.

  If you simply want a free grid based theme and not a portfolio theme then you could look at Mixfolio, Fontfolio, Triton Lite, etc.

  If you want a free magazine style theme see here http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/magazine/?sort=free

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  ninarobinson720 · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 4:49 pm

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  Thank you that’s most helpful!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 4:52 pm

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  You’re welcome.