How to make my front page look like Twenty Twelve live demo
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What widget is being used for the “Meet the Team” item on the bottom left of the Front Page of the Twenty Twelve live demo?
And how do I make that widget actually show up on my Front Page?
About.me isn’t right I don’t think, because I don’t want my WP about me info in that box.
I have tried to do this with the “Text” widget (which is wrong for this because it doesn’t allow a photo). But I can’t even get that widget or the content for it to show up on my front page.
Is that because my blog is still “Private”? Shouldn’t I be able to see the results of the widgets I am adding even when my blog is private?
Thanks! :-)
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For that, see the “Front Page Template” section at http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentytwelve/
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Been there, done that, natch. Doesn’t help. Directs me to the generic WP widget page. Widget page is vast and I don’t see one that will achieve the effect shown in Twenty Twelve demo for “Meet the Team”. Nor does it help me know why the “Text” widget that I DID add to my front page isn’t visible.
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It’s the instructions there which are important. You haven’t selected the Front Page Template for your desired front page yet. ;)
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Actually I did do that when i set it up, and I just went and double-checked. Under Settings -> Reading in my Dashboard, I have ticked “Front page displays a static front page.” So I would like to know why the “Text” widget I added to the “First Front Page Widget Area” is not displaying…
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Right, but you need to edit that page and choose “Front Page Template” as the page’s template. Right now it’s using “Default Template”.
See step 2 under “Front Page Template” at http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentytwelve/
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Thank you macmanx! That solved that problem. My Front Page widgets are now showing because I have now selected “Front Page Template”. :-)
Can you help with the other part of my question – what widget am I looking for to add my headshot and bio in lower left, like the “Meet the Team” item in the Twenty Twelve live demo?
Thanks a bunch!
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That’s a Text widget, with the image included via HTML, like:
<img src="[image URL]"/>If you upload the image via Media -> Add New, you can get the image URL by editing it after upload.
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Doesn’t seem to be working. Does my html look right?
<img src=”http://electroplague.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=31″ />Is there supposed to be a space after the final quote mark?
Thanks again. :-)
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The Text widget won’t let me save my image source html without that space after the final quote mark. If I remove the space, it adds it as soon as I press save. I think that’s the problem. How to make it stop?
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That’s the attachment page, you want the image URL, which you can get from editing the item in the Media section of your blog’s Dashboard.
Specifically, it’s http://electroplague.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/dscn8572-cropsmaller5123x150.jpg
<img src="http://electroplague.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/dscn8572-cropsmaller5123x150.jpg" /> -
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Since you are such an excellent problem-solver macmanx, perhaps you can tell me how to enable word wrap at the end of a line of text in my newest blog: http://electroplague.wordpress.com (which is still private). The default format is breaking long words in two (with a hyphen) at a line end, to put the 2nd half of the word on the next line. I don’t like that.
In my two earlier blogs (theme: Twenty Ten), word wrap at line ends was automatically enabled. But in this newest blog of mine (using Twenty Twelve) it doesn’t seem to be.
Thanks! :)
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Ignore my last question. Got an answer to it. Auto-hyphenation is built in to 2012 theme. I can’t easily turn it off, it seems, without buying an upgrade. So I will probably change themes… I know 2010 doesn’t auto-hyphenate.
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Yes, you would need to add a Custom Design upgrade or one of the bundles to modify CSS to un-hyphenate the theme.
Though, switching themes is a much simpler and freer option. :)
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