Natural Theme – is it possible for my site to look like the natural home page

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  amytavner · Member · Mar 16, 2017 at 11:01 am

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  Hi,
  I recently purchased the Natural theme and want my website to have the same look as the home page example on the Natural demo. I am struggling to work out how to do this.
  I have the main image and menus but would like to also have the large images below that change when then menu attached at the bottom is clicked on. Are these recent post widgets?
  Many thanks from a complete newbie to wordpress
  :)

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

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  ackaeser · Member · Mar 16, 2017 at 11:34 am

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  Hello,

  WordPress.com displays the latest posts from your blog as your front page by default. You can create a static home page instead, here is a link to a quick video overview of how it works followed by instructions and examples: https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

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  amytavner · Member · Mar 16, 2017 at 11:59 am

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  Hi, thanks for this.

  I have set up a static home page which is great but i guess my question now is how to get that page to look like that of the Natural theme.

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  ackaeser · Member · Mar 16, 2017 at 1:05 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  Have you paid for and activated the “Natural” theme yet?

  If not, here are instructions on how to activate the theme:
  To activate a theme, go to My Sites → Themes in any site’s dashboard or the Theme Showcase. Click on the three dots to the right of the theme’s name and then click on Activate.

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  ackaeser · Member · Mar 16, 2017 at 1:08 pm

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  You may also want to take a look at the set-up instructions here: https://wordpress.com/theme/natural/setup/nutribeat.org

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Mar 16, 2017 at 1:10 pm

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  It sounds like @amytavner has purchased and activated the theme, and needs a little help with the setup, so her site looks like the demo site :)

  There are some setup instructions on Natural’s setup page:
  https://wordpress.com/theme/natural/setup

  For the post slider, you’ll use a specific tag to add posts there:

  – My Site > Customize > Featured Content
  – Add a tag (most people use featured
  – My Site > Blog Posts
  – Edit the posts you’d like in your slider. Give each one the tag you’ve set in your Customizer, and a Featured Image

  You’ll also want to make sure you’ve set a Static Front Page so the theme uses the right template :)

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  ackaeser · Member · Mar 16, 2017 at 1:12 pm

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  staff-loquaciousloon thanks for the extra help!

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Mar 16, 2017 at 3:22 pm

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  Any time, thank you for answering the thread as well! :)

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  amytavner · Member · Mar 16, 2017 at 9:08 pm

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  Thank you :)

  I will try this out tomorrow …. thanks for the guidance from you both, much appreciated..

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Mar 17, 2017 at 2:56 pm

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  You’re welcome!