How to get pictures to show up with blog posts – Hemingway Revisited
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I am redesigning one of my blogs with a new theme and just now figuring out how to do static pages (the front page still needs tweaking a bit). I don’t understand why the pictures I’ve selected to go with my blog posts don’t show up when they have in previous themes. Is there a Setting to get the layouts to turn out like they do in the demos and examples?
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You can find out more about setting up Hemingway Rewritten on the theme’s Showcase page. https://wordpress.com/themes/hemingway-rewritten/
However, changing themes should not remove images from posts if they were there previously. Can you give us a direct link to an affected post?
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I thought that any pictures I had used for a specific post would show up on the Blog page, but they only show up if you click the actual article. Is this the way that this particular theme works? Here’s the blog link:
https://catchingupcatchingon.wordpress.com/blog/
The post, “My Morning, Your Night” has a picture and it only shows up when I go to the article itself. On other themes, my posts with pictures show up on the blog as well as going directly to that post. Are there other themes that might work better than this one? I like for my pictures to show up with the posts.
Is the picture supposed to show up where the header normally is? Here’s a direct link to that post:
https://catchingupcatchingon.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/my-morning-your-night/
The only time that the pictures show up on the blog page is if they’re in featured posts. Is that the way the theme is supposed to work? If so, then I must be hitting the wrong settings. Also, if the theme is automatically responsive, is it necessary to click the box to make it mobile-friendly? Thanks!
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I thought that any pictures I had used for a specific post would show up on the Blog page, but they only show up if you click the actual article. Is this the way that this particular theme works?
Correct – Hemingway Rewritten is designed to show Featured Images in the header of individual posts, and on the blog page for Sticky Posts (which this theme marks as “Featured.”
Other themes that you’ve tried might show Featured images in the opposite place, or even both places – it all depends on the theme :)
Here’s a link to the themes that support Featured Images (so you don’t have to dig through the ones that don’t)
https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/featured-images/Some ideas you might like:
Dara (blog demo at https://darademo.wordpress.com/blog/)
Ixion – the demo for this one doesn’t show the images, but you’ll have the option under My Site > Customize > Content Options to enable themThere others, but those are two of my favorites!
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staff-loquaciousloon
Thanks for your suggestions regarding themes! I switched from Hemingway Revisited to Dara, but now I find I’m having issues with Menus–some of which were unresolved when I first set up the blog. Since there are two different ways to access Menus, I may fix things one way through the Menus tab accessed through WP Admin but mess up something else in the other Menu tab. I lost the Home default link in the process (it’s actually hidden somehow, but I don’t know how to retrieve it and put it where I want it to go). While I have the Home page saved as my front page, nothing shows up except the word “Home”. And when I now go to the Default Menu to test things out, the link menu bar disappears; however, when I return to my saved Main Menu, everything works out. There’s just too much to juggle, and for me that’s confusing. How can I get this Menu mess straightened out? Thanks!
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Re: the menu mayhem
Any links to pages that could help me fix this step-by-step would also be appreciated. I forgot to add that earlier–sorry.
Here’s the link to my page:
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Hey @sunnygal66
My preferred method for managing my menus is in the Customizer.
Click on My Site > Customize > Menus
There are two aspects to managing your menus:
1. The menus you build (this is the collection of links: Home, About, Contact, etc)
2. Menu Locations (this is where the menus get displayed on your site)Imagine your website is a wall in your home – and the menu is a picture you are painting to put on that wall. You do your painting and when it’s ready, there are two nails you can hang the picture from.
Menus are the same way: you build the menu (painting the picture) and then assign it to a location (hang that picture on a nail).
So, when you open My Site > Customize > Menus, you’ll see Menu Locations (that’s the list of places you can insert a menu).
Below that, you’ll see a list of all the menus you have saved. If you click on a menu, you can add or remove items from it. You can drag those items up and down to reposition them. You can drag them sideways to indent them, creating a submenu.
First, choose the menu you want to work with. We’ll add your link to it.
To add a Home link, click on the Add items button.
Choose Custom Link
URL: type the address of your site
Link text: type the word “Home”Then hit Add to menu and Save & Publish and you’ll have your home menu back.
Right now, it looks like you actually have two Home links – but I wanted to walk through the steps so you could see how they work :)
I’d remove the first home link you have right now. You’re currently using Main Menu in the top of your site. Click on the first Home and then use the Remove link.
Let me know how it goes, or if you have any more questions!
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I have a Home custom link and a Home page. The Default menu has no menu link bar (and I have no idea how that happened); that’s why I’m using the Main Menu one (I think that was the original Default Menu, as I renamed it to Main Menu according to the Menu instructions). It’s set up mostly the way I want things to be, with the exception of the Home link and Home page. And I’ve noticed that when I designated the Home page as my “front page”, the little home icon showed up there. :) So, I don’t have to even have the default Home link at all, then? So, then, why does it show “Home (Home)-Site” in the Menu list under Customize? That’s part of what’s confusing me!
And then, once I delete the Home link (I re-added it, thinking I’d messed up and needed to save the link elsewhere on the site, so I’ll take it back out again), how do I get the Home page to look like a front page (no word “Home” showing up)? And what is the My Site > WP Admin > Menus for, exactly? I found I made more progress on some things using that route than I did with just going directly to Customize, but got nowhere with Menus on other parts of setting up layouts.
I know I have lots of questions, but I want to understand what I am doing with Menus each time I customize or change something. I struggled a lot with file and link management when I took tech classes, and it looks like that’s still with me in WP. :/ Thanks for your continual help with this!
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Now I have the Home link (first Home) removed and there’s just the Home page now. I think there’s something somewhere about hiding a page for the purpose of making the front page how it’s supposed to look. I know a blank page has to be created and saved as the Home page in order to set up a static page and a blog page, but I’m not sure which WordPress article is the right one to look at next.
Also, what usually works against me–in this case, editing the site on Google Chrome–turned out to be what helped me get everything put back in place! :O :) I thought I’d “wiped out” my default menu again, and just when I almost closed everything out, I found the tab and restored previous items back into place. Then, I closed everything out, cleared out the History in Chrome, and then signed in again. It worked! :) But I still have the Home page thing to contend with. Anyway, that’s where I am now in the process.
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Your menu looks good :)
My advice, to cut down on the confusion factor, would be to always use the same menu editor – and I’d recommend the Customizer as the one to use, personally.
The WP Admin version, and the My Site > Menus version both work, but they each work a bit differently. Switching between them can get confusing if you aren’t used to them all, so picking one and sticking with it is the best approach :)
For your home page, check out the Dara info page – specifically the “Setting Up Your Front Page” section.
You’ve already done the first part, of setting up a front page :)
Next, you can use My Site > Customize > Featured Content to select a Featured Content tag that will control which posts show up in the post slider. Most people use featured as that tag. Give the posts you want in your slider that tag, and they’ll appear there automatically.
Next, My Site > Customize > Theme Options will let you select three pages from your site to show on the home page.
Finally – the actual home page content. In Dara, that content is shown between the slider and the three featured pages.
On the Dara demo site, “Welcome” is the title of the home page. “With bold featured images and bright, cheerful colors, Dara is ready to get to work for your business.” Is the content of the home page.
You can edit the page to change what it says – changing the title to whatever you’d like to see, for example.
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staff-loquaciousloon–
Thanks for the valuable feedback!
Wow, it sounds like I’ve picked the best theme for what I wish to accomplish at the moment! :) Ironic that the demo site home page is actually called “welcome”, as I almost labeled it that and may still do so–that also explains why the page never goes away or “hides” depending on menu settings and such.
Re. the Dara theme and Menus functions–The Dara theme is actually the 7th theme I’ve checked out. So far, I like it. I also like the picture-and-wall analogy you used to describe how Menus work, both in the regular “Customize” section and the WP Admin “Customize”. While I’m liking the improved My Site “Customize” and Menus tab, I’m learning how to use both the My Site and the WP Admin Menus, as I get specific results from each one that I don’t get from the other.
I’m still confused about the Social Links Menu; is it just a sub-menu that works with the main menu I’m using, or how does that work? I’ve experimented some with Fictive, Sorbet, and similar site themes, but found this part overwhelming to set up. Do you have any workaround strategy that would help me understand how this works, as I’ve thought of using that menu option? Thanks!
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You’re welcome!
I’m still confused about the Social Links Menu; is it just a sub-menu that works with the main menu I’m using, or how does that work? I’ve experimented some with Fictive, Sorbet, and similar site themes, but found this part overwhelming to set up. Do you have any workaround strategy that would help me understand how this works, as I’ve thought of using that menu option?
On themes that support it, the Social Links Menu is a built in way to show a menu of social media icons.
The page I’ve linked to will have more detailed info, but the basics are that if you create a menu full of custom links to supported social media sites, the theme can look at the address you provide, and see what platform it belongs to. Then it puts in the right icon.
For example, if you put a menu into the location your current theme uses for social media, the theme will see your Facebook url, recognize it, and display the facebook icon.
Hopefully that cleared things up a bit :)
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Another question–I see on the Dara theme info page that it mentions you can post Pocket as one of your social media buttons, but I don’t see anywhere on the Widgets form where I can. Is this a WP Admin customization task? I have other social media links I wish to put up, and I’d like to put Pocket up there. Thanks!
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You won’t use a widget for Pocket, it’s in the Social Links menu we were talking about.
Add a Custom Link to your social menu, using your Pocket profile address (it’ll start with getpocket.com and Dara will add the icon for you :)
I’ve also just realized we’ve gotten kind of far from the original topic of this post, so if more questions come up, let’s move them to a new thread of their own to keep things organized :)
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Okay, sounds good.–thanks. I didn’t intend for it to veer that far from the original questions about the pictures and the Hemingway Revisited theme, so all I have to do here is bookmark this for reference. That about covers it, so thanks again for all your help!
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Hi, thank you for your posts, they really helped me.
I have a problem with Featured Pages in Dara Theme. They simply don’t show up.
I uploaded an image, wrote a little excerpt, inserted the pages in the Theme Options > Featured Pages > Dropdown Menu, but they still don’t show up.
Where I am doing bad? Did I miss something?
Really thank you for your help.
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@kaeljar
Please click this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/?new=1 and start your own thread making sure that you include the URL of the site you refer to when you do that.
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