Please help me out – Sidebar Query

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  missingmann · Member · Jul 9, 2010 at 10:21 pm

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  Hello – Help!!!!! Total newbie here – I use Blogger.com which I find really user friendly being a 51 year old technophobe but having signed up here tonight I am really struggling! My blog is here: http://www.missingmann.wordpress.com – just look at it – it’s a mess and I can’t find anyway of fixing it. Why aren’t the two posts appearing on the front page? Why can’t I get rid of the tasteful grey box that dominates the front page?

  Any help would be much appreciated. At least on blogger there’s a button for viewing the blog but not here.

  Thanks.

  David

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 9, 2010 at 10:32 pm

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  The taste(less) grey box is part of the theme. It is to display featured posts/images. You can get a better idea of what this theme is about by reading these links.

  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/new-theme-structure/
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/introduction-to-structure/

  Structure has a lot of advanced features and you will need to familiarize yourself with them.

  The reason the video is not showing on the main page is that in structure, only an excerpt is shown on the main page with a read more link, and it will not show images or videos on the main page in the excerpts by default.

  Read the links and then see if perhaps another theme might not be a better fit for you.

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  missingmann · Member · Jul 9, 2010 at 10:43 pm

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  Many thanks – I will endeavour to persevere! I see a return to Blogger looming as I have very limited patience these days.

  All the best.

  David