Front Page Version
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I cannot figure out how to get the Sela template to change to look like the example shown (front page version/wide). What am I doing wrong? I can’t find the “reader setting” area that everyone talks about in order to make the change.
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Your Reading page is here > Dashboard > Settings > Reading
http://hartselleartstudio.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.phpThere is a detailed theme description page with set up instructions at this link https://wordpress.com/themes/sela
The live demo site is here https://selademo.wordpress.com/
All support docs are here http://support.wordpress.com
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You 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: -
Thank you both for your help. That does clear that up. Is there any way to easily change the size of the header picture? The examples are much wider than what the template allows for (it automatically crops it down very narrow).
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I had that issue where it cropped it and left aligned it automatically. I had to find a bigger wider picture and then it took the full space. I couldn’t find another way.
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The examples are much wider than what the template allows for (it automatically crops it down very narrow).
I would suggest editing and cropping your images in a dedicated image editing program on your computer, or possibly one of the online image editors so that you are in control of the size and the crop. You can then upload and use those images. The one thing to remember though is that there is a limit to how much you can enlarge or shrink an image before it loses quality and sharpness. The algorithms they use currently in image editing programs are pretty amazing, but they still have limitations.
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What do you put on the new pages that create (Front Page and Posts Page) because I made them and I didn’t know if any code was necassary so I left the page blank other than changing the name of the page to ” Front Page and altering its template to Front page template. The result was that it is just empty.
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@rousingthekop, typically in a static front page, you want to put an introduction to your site and your content. The posts page will automatically be created and display your posts. See our Post vs. Page support document for more information on the differences.
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