Doubts on GEMA and BOOKLETS themes
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Hi,
I am deciding on which theme to buy between BOOKLET and GEMA but before making a decision I have a few doubts left.
About GEMA:
– would it be possible to arrange ‘manually’ the posts’ position in the homepage?
– what would the menu look like with ‘child pages’?
– when I open a post, if I remove the right sidebar will the text cell automatically become wider or that’s the fixed size?About BOOKLET:
– would it be possible in the homepage to add boxes not for posts but quotes or pictures only?
– what would the menu look like with ‘child pages’?
– in the posts’ in the homepage, can I delete the text preview and leave only the title?Thank you SO much for any answer.
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Have you consulted these resources I will link to below?
https://wordpress.com/themes/gema
https://wordpress.com/themes/gema/support/
https://gemademo.wordpress.com/https://wordpress.com/themes/booklet
https://wordpress.com/themes/booklet/support/
https://bookletdemo.wordpress.com/If you cannot find answers to your questions there type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Also subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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Thanks a lot, I found a few answers and I’ll get in touch with the Staff for the others! Cheers
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Hi @mariapiavitali, let us know what questions still remain.
Also, if you’ll go to My Site > Themes, click on a theme, then click “Open Live Demo”, you can click “Try and Customize” to see how things play out with your existing content.
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Hi @supernovia, I have not created the website yet and I don’t have any content to test it with.
I won’t even be the one creating the website as this is not my sector of competence, so my apologies in advance if I sound slightly ignorant on the subject.
I like GEMA more, so I hoped you could answer my questions about it. I’d like to know whether I can arrange my posts manually (e.g. to decrease the space among them in order to have in sight more posts at the same time) and if I can work on the wideness of the text cells of the posts.
Thanks a lot for the patience
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I’d like to know whether I can arrange my posts manually (e.g. to decrease the space among them in order to have in sight more posts at the same time) and if I can work on the wideness of the text cells of the posts.
You cannot redesign the way any theme functions. You can purchase an upgrade that allows for CSS editing resulting in changes to theme appearance only, not functionality.
See here for details on purchasing an annually renewable upgrade https://wordpress.com/pricing/ that contains a custom design upgrade required for CSS editing.
Once you have the required upgrade you can use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can create a thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get the help you need with CSS editing.
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Thx. I’ll forward this to my web site developer and see if can sort it out or pick another theme.
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WordPress.com is a turn key blogging platform with off the shelf themes and that means that we do not have to fire anyone to set up our themes. We can do that all on our own.
It is important that the developer you refer to is crystal clear on the differences between wordpress.COM hosted sites and wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting. The two are very different. Themes cannot be transferred from wordpress.COM hosted sites to wordpress.ORG sites and visa versa.
There is no FTP access to any wordpress.com sites. The only themes we can use on WordPress.com hosted blogs are licensed and adapted to run on our multiuser software the themes are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and in your dashboard at > Appearance > Themes
for security reasons and we cannot:
upload any third party themes,
create child themes,
create our own themes,
edit templates,
create own own layouts,
or use stylesheets from other themes.See:
Themes »Uploading Custom Themes
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Glad you cleared that up, I didn’t really get why you would have to fire someone to create themes! :D
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Thanks for being gracious. I appreciate it as a little good humor online goes a long way towards preserving sanity and civility. :)
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My pleasure. Always try to be merciful online, I don’t find it the place to be rude or start a fight or bring my frustrations (most of which derive from my inability to understand a thing when it comes to “how can I find the theme of my dreams?”). ;)
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There have been many times I have lost control and shouted loudly here at my end but, fortunately, I did not do that online frequently. ;)
I am going to take a pass when it comes to responding to “how can I find the theme of my dreams?”
I have been answering questions here for over 10 years now. Truth be told, I do not believe the perfect theme exists and I do not advise wasting time on looking for it. I recommend publishing content, lots and lots of content.
In other words, I am an old school blogger. I know that themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. I know that switching themes on wordpress.COM hosted sites can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site.
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. (CSS editing is theme specific editing.)
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to https://NAME__YOUR_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin
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.
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*You would have to replace NAME_YOUR_BLOG with the actual name of the blog in that URL to reach that page.
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You are taking a pass…I take it you’re not a romantic, are you? :)
Nor am I, TBH. It was a socially accepted way to say I’m an organising maniac and I like to have everything under control and to be minimal; hence a “skin”, as you call it, with as many posts as possible on the screen, but only showing photos and titles. And a few quotes.
No previews or gadgets or additional windows and so on.But I’ll follow you suggestions, and either try my luck by starting with Gema or pick a simpler one and eventually switch theme when I’ll be confident working with it.
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I am a recovering organization maniac and control freak. I used to be a paralegal librarian so imagine how translates into blogging.
When I coach new wordpress.com bloggers (not on this support forum) I get them to register a practice blog and make it private. Then I get them to publish at least 4 pages and 4 posts of content with images, and to switch themes 4 times. Then I get them to create custom menus. After they have mastered those and learned how to use support docs, google search and tag search here they do not really need me, they just think they do, so it is a good thing that I do not work for pay. :)
It has been good getting to know you and I have a hunch that you will do fine. Best wishes to you. :)
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Thanks from the bottom of my maniacal-heart for all the tips and the wishes!
I’ll try and put them into practice. :)
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You are welcome. :) And, when supernovia, Staff (who rocks) is logged in again she will continue to help you. I just filled in the gap.
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Hi @mariapiavitali ! Just chiming in to note you could decrease the width between posts with Gema + custom CSS.
We also have some themes that show consistent image shapes nicely, like cubicdemo.wordpress.com and dyaddemo.wordpress.com .
Try any of these:
https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/grid-layout
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