Expound: how to get the look of the demo

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    kathryndrury · Member ·

    Hi,
    I am developing a website for a community as part of my Masters studies but am having difficulty getting the frontpage display of Expound to look similar to the demo.

    My website is: beingprepared101.wordpress.com
    when you access the site, l have attached a powerpoint to show how l want to display my site.

    The coloured boxes represent pictures that when selected, will take you to a page with descriptive information for the end user. I have created two pages with featured images and have created tags but can’t add a tag to these pages so as to promote them to the frontpage. The info on these pages will be static but may change on the odd occasion. Should these pages be ‘posts’ instead?

    On the menu bar l do have a item for Updates which is where regular posts will be for regular updates by the community. But don’t want those that have tags to be displayed here.

    Thanks in advance for all help.
    Kathryn

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

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    lizthefair · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I think part of the problem is that your theme is really for displaying posts on your front page and you don’t want to do that–you want to display pages. You could make it work by using posts in the place of pages, but I think you will be happier with a different theme.

    Here’s what I suggest.

    Switch to the Motif theme.
    http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/motif/

    The grid page template does basically what you want, so if you set your home page up as a static page using the grid template and make all the subpages you want to show up on the front page child pages of your home page you should be set.

    The link above has a basic explanation of how that all works, but if you get stuck, let me know and I’ll help walk you through the rough parts.

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    kathryndrury · Member ·

    Thanks, l appreciate it.

    I have applied Motif and so far it looks good but am having 1 problem:
    * l have started to add widgets (search) to the ‘main sidebar’, however, the ‘search glass’ appears at the top right-hand corner instead of a Search text box in a side pane.

    what should l do?

    Thanks..

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    kathryndrury · Member ·

    I have looked at the live site and noticed that the search glass is not visible.

    I also have 2 more problems:
    a) the Read More tag isn’t working. As each page will contain a bit of text l don’t what this text appearing in the grid on my frontpage. I have inserted Read More, but to no avail;
    b) l also have a custom menu problem; two pages are displaying in the menu bar and l can’t seem to fix this – they are not visible in my custom menu.

    thanks again

  • Unknown's avatar
    lizthefair · Member ·

    l have started to add widgets (search) to the ‘main sidebar’, however, the ‘search glass’ appears at the top right-hand corner instead of a Search text box in a side pane.

    I think you may have figured this out on your own, but this theme doesn’t actually use the sidebar on the front page or “full width” pages. It’s only used on blog pages. So if you want the search options to appear on every page, putting it in the footer as you have done is the right option.

    the Read More tag isn’t working. As each page will contain a bit of text l don’t what this text appearing in the grid on my frontpage. I have inserted Read More, but to no avail;

    The theme is designed to pull a short excerpt from the child page. We can remove that with CSS if you have the custom design upgrade, otherwise I’m afraid that’s how it works.

    two pages are displaying in the menu bar and l can’t seem to fix this – they are not visible in my custom menu.

    At the top of the menu page there is a spot to “assign” your custom menu to a location on your site. If you don’t assign your menu to the “primary” menu spot, it will default to the regular menu. It sounds like that’s what’s in play here.

    Let me know if you have more questions, or if any of these solutions don’t work.

    If you do have (or decide to purchase) the custom design upgrade, let me know that as well and I’ll give you the CSS to remove those excerpts.

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    kathryndrury · Member ·

    thanks for your help, l appreciate it..

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