Edin: Skip the static front page and use grid template
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Newbie here!
I would like to skip having a front page and just have a grid template showing blogs (featured image with blurb). Can I do this or do I have to make each blog post a new page?
Right now I have “private” posts until I figure this out. My featured images are not showing next to each post either. So…it’s a long page with blog posts (some pix located in the posts). So how does anyone see the “featured” image and blurb for each post?
Thanks!
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Do you understand that you have only two 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 who will not be happy to have to click through an About page every time they visit your blog as they come to read your most recently published content. Creating that situation can make some visitors annoyed – so annoyed that they stop following your blog.
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 all published posts (not pages) to display on in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.
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 for each of the two page and click “save changes”.
A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page:The guide for creating a static front page is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
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The way your theme is designed to function is found here on the detailed theme description page https://wordpress.com/themes/edin where you also find instructions for the Grid Page Template.
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Yes, I do understand. I figured out a lot of things after posting this question! However, I do have the blog posts showing on the front page (with the feature image and excerpt). What I don’t like is the one column format. I’d rather see it in grid form…but grid form seems to require a separate page for each post??
Perhaps another theme altogether would provide what I need. -
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but grid form seems to require a separate page for each post??
Actually that’s right — this middle section of Edin is designed to show three different featured pages. If your blog is one of them, it will show the number of posts specified in settings > reading.
Edin is more for websites than blogs, really. But do you plan on adding any other pages to this site, like a Contact Us or anything along those lines? You could feature that, or have an expanded “About” page and feature that, then just feature the latest blog post.
If you definitely want to go blog-only, I’d recommend using a theme that favors blogs. Here are a few options you might like:
http://baskervilledemo.wordpress.com/
http://visualdemo.wordpress.com/
https://romerodemo.wordpress.com/
https://cubicdemo.wordpress.com/ -
Thank you! We have a professional website, so this would be a blog-only site. We just need the blog posts to show on the front page, but as grids/thumbnails, so it’s not a never-ending page of full posts. I’ll check out the ones you suggested.
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Ah, then we’ve got a lot of great options out there. I’d recommend checking out theme.wordpress.com and clicking on the theme demos for the ones you like. If the grid (or even non-grid) featured content links to posts with dates in them, it would likely work well for you.
We’ll add other themes here if we can think of anything are very similar to Edin but for blog posts.
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You might also check out these:
https://pictoricodemo.wordpress.comOr for a non-grid, this one looks pretty neat:
https://patchdemo.wordpress.com/ -
I decided to go with Cubic…but then Pictorico seems to be the right layout for us. If anyone knows: how do I tighten the line spacing in Pictorico? For instance, I have a paragraph in one of the footers. It looks double-spaced, which is annoying. Also, the font for the body of blog posts is too large. Any way to change it?
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Are you planning on adding Premium? If so, you’ll get custom CSS capabilities (and a bunch of other things) in which case you could tighten up the line-height like so:
.widget { line-height: 1.4em; }Here’s a before and after (just a preview)
https://cloudup.com/cQieLs7KyPOYou could adjust that number too if you’d like. :)
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Ah, that’s so much better. But I’m sticking with free, so I’m stuck with it for now. :-/
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You could also do a shorter about then link it to the real website. Then the gappy lines wouldn’t be so obvious.
In any case, I hope that all helps a bit!
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