Illustratr photo gallery issues and creating front page

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  antgilesfft · Member · Apr 19, 2015 at 12:03 pm

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  I am using Illustratr theme and am having difficulty creating well aligned photo galleries. I am selecting gallery from the post type menu, adding in images and they are posting as if copied and pasted randomly. I have tried moving all around etc, but once I publish it looks bad on the final page. Any tips?

  Also, I am trying to create a front page, but when following the steps in wordpress guides I cannot find this function after creating a new page to become front page:

  Go to Settings → Reading and set “Front page displays” to “A static page.”

  Can anyone help or recommend a better theme?

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

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 19, 2015 at 12:50 pm

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  The site you’ve linked to above is using the “Boardwalk” theme.

  Is there another WordPress.com site where you’re using “Illustratr”? If so, could you please provide a direct link to a post where you are having trouble with the Gallery feature.

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  antgilesfft · Member · Apr 19, 2015 at 8:05 pm

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  Hi, I was changing it to see if other themes worked. I have sorted the picture gallery thing now and gone back to illustratr, but still can’t find the way of doing a frontpage like in the theme example. Thanks for checking it out

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 6:14 am

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  The Illustratr theme demo uses the Portfolio template page on the front page

  Here’s more about working with Illustratr: https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/illustratr/

  And here’s more about using the Portfolio feature:

  Create a Portfolio Website

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  antgilesfft · Member · Apr 20, 2015 at 7:24 am

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  Thank you – the issue that I am having is none of the menu options seem to be where they are meant to in the guides. I will get on to WordPress support I think, it’s so frustrating