help with page set up.

  • Unknown's avatar
    tigersfoot · Member ·

    different set ups on pages. I’ve just started and am attempting to have the following:

    A home page that shows about 6 posts (photographs with full text), then archive pages that pretty much show about 30 days worth of photos with minimal text. What I can’t find in looking at all the customization stuff – is whether or not I can have different pages in different formats?

    I did pick a customized theme that allows additional customized menus but haven’t been able to progress from there.

    thanks for any assistance.

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

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Hi there, for the vast majority of themes here at WordPress.com, there is one setting for the number of posts to display on the main blog, archive, category and tag pages, and that is at Settings > Reading. Whatever the setting is there, is the number of posts that will appear on the page types I mentioned. This isn’t something that is controlled with CSS.

    There are a number of themes here that will display excerpts on the category/archive/tags pages, and there are some that will include a featured image along with the text excerpt.

    Monthly archives will show all the posts for a single month, but how many will show per page, is again, the number set at Settings > Reading in the dashboard. There will be a button at the bottom of those archive pages which will allow the visitor to view additional posts in that monthly archive, just as there is at the bottom of the category and main blog pages.

    You may wish to look through the other themes here under Photography, Photoblogging and Portfolio, and check out the live demos of those themes and take a look at the archive and categories pages to see if any of them may suit you better.

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    designsimply · Member ·

    What I can’t find in looking at all the customization stuff – is whether or not I can have different pages in different formats?

    At WordPress.com, you can change how existing pages setups look with custom CSS if you purchase the Custom Design upgrade, however, you cannot change the underlying code to get really fine-grained control over the function of a blog which is determined by PHP code.

    If you’re really keen on having absolute control of everything and coding it yourself, a WordPress.org setup is the way to go.

    If you like the idea of all the code getting maintained for you, then try out some of the themes that thesacredpath suggested. You might find something you really like here at WordPress.com!!

    See what you think about the Hatch theme: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/hatch

    You might also really like the new “Icon only” design for sharing buttons:

    A New Design for Sharing and Reblogging

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