Edin Theme Customization
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I’m trying to switch to the Edin theme and customize theme but I can’t get my homepage to look like the Edin demo page. How can I get the page to have one sticky post on top (wide) and several other posts as only thumbnails like in the demo?
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Hi there. You have to create a new page using the Front Page Template, and then set that page as your front page under Settings ->Reading. You can find detailed instructions and links to the relevant support docs in the theme’s support page: https://wordpress.com/themes/edin/
I will point out, though, that Edin displays pages as thumbnails, not posts. I don’t think there’s any way to have it display posts instead.
Let me know if you need more help with this.
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Customization questions here. I have been using the Edin Theme for a few months and love the clean (and fast!) load of a Grid Page as the static page opener. What I can’t figure out is how to have the Front Page 3-column widgets to show in the ‘Grid Page’ attribute. If ‘Front Page’ is selected in lieu of ‘Grid Page,’ the daughter pages (the grid) drops off. It seems to be an either/or situation, but not both at once. Here’s the blog (currently with the static page set-up).
Q1: Is there a way to do both — grid page with front page widgets — that is like the Edin demo? The result would a single page with daughter pages linked in grid format, followed by front page widgets, ending with the footer.
Q2: Since I’ll no longer be using blog posts as the opening page, how do I create link to view blog posts?
Thank you for your time! ~ Shannon
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Hi Shannon
Q1: The Grid Page and the Front Page are two completely different page templates. You can only assign one template to any single page at a time, so it is an either/or situation, I’m afraid. The Front Page widget areas are only available on that specific page template. For any other page template you can only use your theme’s default widget areas, keeping in mind that the grid and full width templates won’t show sidebar widgets even if you have them added. Those page templates will only show your footer widgets.
You can see Edin’s support doc for more information: https://wordpress.com/themes/edin/
Q2: Create a new page. Title it Blog or Posts, but don’t add any content, and publish it. Then go to Settings ->Reading on the WP-Admin dashboard. Under the first option where you selected your static page should be a second drop-down to select your posts page. Select the new page you just created and save your settings.
You can use a custom menu to control where in your menu that page appears (I see you already have category pages set up, so you just edit your existing custom menu). http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
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Thank you for concise instruction. Knowing now I cannot create a front page in the way I thought, I used the Blog Post page to create a link on the front page instead.
When I went to title the new blog page link ‘Blog,’ it wanted to call it ‘Blog-2’ and would not allow me to edit it to just ‘Blog’ for some reason. I couldn’t find another page (created previously?) with the same named that might cause that to happen, so I just settled on naming it ‘Posts’ so that now the page is ‘http://…/blog/posts.’ I would really prefer for it to just be ‘…/blog’ but I haven’t been able to t figure out to do it.
If you have any ideas on that, I’d love to know, otherwise, consider this matter closed. I so appreciate your time!
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I see all three pages featured on your front page have “blog” in the URL, so I wonder if the page template doesn’t have something to do with it.
I’ve never experimented with this theme myself, so I don’t know it beyond what’s said in the support doc, thus I can’t really help you further with this.
I’m going to tag this thread for staff to follow up. They’ll hopefully be able to explain to you what’s going on and how to fix it. Just be patient while waiting for their reply.
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with the same named that might cause that to happen, so I just settled on naming it ‘Posts’ so that now the page is ‘http://…/blog/posts.’ I would really prefer for it to just be ‘…/blog’ but I haven’t been able to t figure out to do it.
You do have an existing blog page, it’s just hiding.
https://dirtnkids.wordpress.com/blog
is the page titled “Welcome” that is currently set as your home page.
If you want that to be where your posts go, you could create a new Welcome page, set it as your home page and move your blog posts to the “blog” page.
If you’d like to go that way and want some step by step help getting things set up, let me know and I’ll walk you through it.
I just settled on naming it ‘Posts’ so that now the page is ‘http://…/blog/posts.’
This is happening because the posts page is a child page of the blog page. You could have your posts show up at
https://dirtnkids.wordpress.com/posts
If you set it’s parent page to “no parent”
Let me know if you have questions about that.
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kokkieh and lizthefair, fantastic explanations. I (finally) see the connection between ‘parent’ pages and the daughters, especially as it pertains to the grid format (which I have adopted as the blog’s opening page, versus the front page format). I changed that whole family to ‘home’ to keep it simple.
Thanks so very much. I think that will do it.
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