More featured posts on homepage

hannahdryan · Member · Apr 9, 2017 at 7:41 pm
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Hi there, I’d like to have more than three featured posts featured on the home page so those people who don’t bother to click further can see a greater overview of my work. Is it possible to have two rows of featured posts on the homepage, so 6 all up?

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timethief · Member · Apr 9, 2017 at 7:45 pm
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WordPress.COM is a multi user blogging platform with off the shelf themes and it’s aimed for use by those who do not code. Each theme is uniquely designed. The way your theme is designed to function and the features it has are found at that’s where the live demo site link is also found. We cannot change how any theme functions. Go to https://wordpress.com/theme/gateway and if the

We wordpress.com bloggers do not have access to the template files underlying our themes and we cannot edit them, as our blogs share a common architecture, and as all blogs wearing the same theme use the same underlying template, found on the live demo site for each theme.
timethief · Member · Apr 9, 2017 at 7:49 pm
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I’m sorry about that confusing first paragraph above.

WordPress.COM is a multi user blogging platform with off the shelf themes and it’s aimed for use by those who do not code. Each theme is uniquely designed. The way your theme is designed to function and the features it has are found at https://wordpress.com/theme/gateway that’s where the live demo site link is also found. We cannot change how any theme functions and if that capability is not found there it does not exist.

Featured Content
Gateway allows you to feature up to three Posts or Pages, by tagging them, and then entering that tag in the Featured Content area of the Customizer. Any Featured Images assigned to these Posts or Pages will get displayed in the Featured Content area.

If no tag is specified, the Homepage template will display your last three posts, excluding Sticky posts.
dcoleonline · Staff · Apr 10, 2017 at 7:19 pm
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Is it possible to have two rows of featured posts on the homepage, so 6 all up?

Hi hannahdryan,

Gateway doesn’t offer that, though you could use a Recent Posts widget or a Top Posts & Pages widget in the footer of the site to offer more links to your work.

If you’re open to changing themes, you could switch over to one like the Dara theme, which allows up to 10 featured posts in the main slider. Generally if you’d like to feature more posts on the front page, a different theme may be your best option.
timethief · Member · Apr 10, 2017 at 7:26 pm
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Thanks for the follow-up and workaround suggestions. :)
dcoleonline · Staff · Apr 10, 2017 at 7:34 pm
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@timethief: You bet!
miptexas · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 10:11 pm
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Is there any way to center 2 featured posts instead of 3 in the gateway theme?
dcoleonline · Staff · Apr 18, 2017 at 2:37 pm
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@miptexas: Yes, since your site has WordPress.com Premium, you have access to make changes like this through the use of Custom CSS.

You can add this CSS via My Site > Customize > CSS:
```
/*Widen Home Featured Posts*/

@media only screen and (min-width: 50em) {
    .home .featured-posts .hentry {
        width: 50%;
    }
}
/*Widen Home Featured Post Images*/

@media screen and (min-width: 70em) {
    .home .featured-posts .featured-image img {
        width: 37.5em;
    }
}
```
Make sure to only feature two posts, and they will be centered.

If you get stuck, or want to make further customizations to this code, just open up a new thread over in the CSS Customization Forum, and we’ll be happy to assist you there.
miptexas · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 4:53 pm
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Thank you so much!
I had some other questions, how can you make the homepage (featured) image either rotating images or one larger image without having the image text? Also, is there any way to make the banners in the other pages (Gateway theme) static instead of rotating?
dcoleonline · Staff · Apr 18, 2017 at 7:01 pm
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I had some other questions

@miptexas: Sure, since you have another thread open with those questions, we’ll answer you these there.
miptexas · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 7:18 pm
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Perfect, Thanks!

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