Grids and columns
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I’ve tried several themes, including ones that explicitly say they support columns but I can’t make any of them show columns. I’m currently working on Goran. I’ve selected a template that says shows a grid but it won’t show a grid. Is there any way I can just get a page with a table format so that I can plug things in?
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Of course! You can use the “Footer Widget” in the Customize menu on your site, then assign plugins to footers 1-3. Does that help you?
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I called it a plugin, but I meant “assign a widget to footers 1-3”. Plugins are entirely different– sorry!
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Thank you! At this point I zapped my WordPress site because I’d pretty well given up. I’ve been crapping around with it for over a week and couldn’t get anywhere with it. But I guess I’ll try to create another WordPress site and try again. I want to use WordPress but find it incredibly difficult and unintuitive. Possibly I think because I’m not interested in creating a blog or in any of the bloggish features it supports. I just want a website. Thank you again!
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I tried again and it doesn’t work. I just want to set up something like my current site here: http://home.sandiego.edu/~baber/ I can’t make it show a three column display or a grid. I don’t want any of the ‘widgets’ listed–just links to other pages at the site I create. Is there any way of doing this? Or any template that will facilitate making a static website with lots of pages but just one message board–at most?
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Of course! Have you already set the site up to have a static front page? If you go to the widgets, you can select the “Text”. From there, you can put in links to other sites. You can also embed an image that acts as a link to other sites.
Here is the HTML code that would act as a standard link:
link text(Replace “url” with the web address of the site you want to link to, and “link text” to whatever text you want displayed.)
(Again, replace “url” with the web address, and the “image url” as the image you want to display.)
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I tried to set up a static front page. But I can’t understand how to designate one of the pages I create as the home page. I did select text for two of the widgets, but again they showed up below the text rather than as columns. I’m trying to create a design like the one at my current site. I appreciate this help and will keep trying. I’m sorry to be so stupid about this.
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After you set up a page with the content you want to display on your front page, you can go to the “Customize” menu on your WordPress. On the menu on the left, you’ll see a tab that says “Static Front Page”. Select that, then select “A Static Page”. Once that button is checked, go to the “Front Page” drop-down menu and select the page you created that you want to be your main page.
Hopefully that works as a main page!
For the widgets, I’m sorry! The code I sent wasn’t in a code box, so it didn’t show up like I hoped it would.
Here is the link code:
<a href="URL">text goes here</a>Here is the image link code:
<a href="URL"><img src="image URL"></>Not a problem! I love helping people– I hope this works for you! The footer widgets should be in a grid-like formation.
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I can’t even get in to any place where I can put in this code. I understand how to write simply html but I can’t understand how to navigate WordPress. There was a drop-down menu in which I selected ‘about’ but then I just get a page with no options for doing anything, or for putting in any code.
I don’t want to start writing anything, if that’s possible, before I set up the structure. But I just can’t see how to do this, or how to navigate WordPress.
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