Grid Layout

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  kylieharang · Member · May 19, 2017 at 4:19 pm

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  I cannot for the life of me get the Sela layout to become a grid style. Help please!

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 19, 2017 at 8:41 pm

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  Hi,

  The “grid style” that you see on the demo at the Sela theme “Overview” page, is dependent upon several factors, which include the following:

  1. The front page must be set to display a static page. The site https://mysweetestlittlethings.com/ is set to display the latest posts on the front page. This setting can be changed at Customize > Static Front Page > Your front page displays. Choose “A static page,” and then select the pages that you wish to serve as your front page and posts page from the two drop-down menus.

  2. The static front page must have the “Front Page” template assigned to it. Some themes, including Sela, have optional page templates. See the Template section of the Page Attributes support page for information about page templates.

  3. In the Sela demo, the items in the grid that you refer to have been created by adding image links and text to three optional front page widget areas that display on a page with the Front Page Template assigned to it. Sela is not the easiest theme to set up to resemble the corresponding demo. If you have trouble setting this up, you might ask staff to reset the theme on your site so that it looks like the demo, including default sample images links and text (with text links) in the three front page widget areas. To call for staff attention to this topic, add a “modlook” tag to the tags in the sidebar of the thread.

  If you’d prefer to set up the three front page widget areas from scratch on your own, the following support documents may be helpful:

  • Widgets
  • Text Widget
  • Links
  • Text Widget Links
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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 19, 2017 at 8:48 pm

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  Even if staff resets the theme to display the three sample widgets in the front page widget areas, you’ll want to change both the images (which are also links), and the text (which includes text links). So the “Links,” “Text Widget,” and “Text Widget Links” support pages will be particularly helpful in getting this done.