Rotating posts on home page

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    heelsandpyjamas · Member ·

    Hey guys,
    I would love to have a homepage that showcases posts from all my categories.
    I envision a box with the picture and post title that scrolls through recent posts which you can click on and get straight to the post.
    My site is theaccomplishedwoman.org and as you can see I’m going to have five categories.
    I’d also love to make the header clickable if anyone knows how to do that too.
    Thanks

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

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    heelsandpyjamas · Member ·

    Something like this except fancier:
    http://demo.inderhees.net/

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    timethief · Member ·

    I would love to have a homepage that showcases posts from all my categories.
    I envision a box with the picture and post title that scrolls through recent posts which you can click on and get straight to the post.

    CSS editing cannot be used to change functionality. Have you checked out the premium themes > http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sort/premium/

    My site is theaccomplishedwoman.org and as you can see I’m going to have five categories.

    You cannot post to pages. Pages are static and sit outside the blog structure. With wordpress, you use categories to organize posts into subjects and then you can add those categories to your navigation using a custom menu.

    Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

    What’s critical is:
    (1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
    (2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

    We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.

    A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus

    I’d also love to make the header clickable if anyone knows how to do that too.

    > Appearance > Header scroll down and choose “yes” then click “save changes”
    Display Text

    No __Yes __

    Note: If you remove your Blog Tile from this page > Settings > General
    do know that search spiders do look for that the most important link in you blog there and getting your site indexed could become problematic.

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    @heelsandpyjamas: As timethief said, you cannot change the way a theme works. What you’re looking for is possible in the new iTheme2 – check the demo:
    http://itheme2demo.wordpress.com/

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    heelsandpyjamas · Member ·

    Thanks everyone!
    One more question. I’ve made an image map for my header- to redirect to categories.
    It looks like this:

    <map id=”imap_88″ name=”imap_88″ >
    <area shape=”rect” coords=”70,146,213,193″ alt=”Sensibilities” title=”Sensibilities” href=”http://theaccomplishedwoman.org/category/sensibilities/”>
    <area shape=”rect” coords=”225,147,321,190″ alt=”” title=”” href=”http://theaccomplishedwoman.org/category/soirees/”>
    <area shape=”rect” coords=”331,145,420,191″ alt=”” title=”” href=”http://theaccomplishedwoman.org/category/feasts/”>
    <area shape=”rect” coords=”434,148,540,194″ alt=”” title=”” href=”http://theaccomplishedwoman.org/category/manners/”>
    <area shape=”rect” coords=”558,145,774,192″ alt=”” title=”” href=”http://theaccomplishedwoman.org/category/accomplishments/”>
    <area shape=”rect” coords=”1,1,927,142″ alt=”” title=”” href=”http://theaccomplishedwoman.org/”>
    <area shape=”rect” coords=”776,142,929,197″ alt=”” title=”” href=”http://theaccomplishedwoman.org/”>
    <area shape=”rect” coords=”2,142,70,192″ alt=”” title=”” href=”http://theaccomplishedwoman.org/”>
    </map>

    I’ve put that in my css and it’s not working. I’ve previously had to clear my css so my stylesheet is blank. Help!

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    Works fine, only it has no place in your CSS editor: that’s HTML, not CSS. If you want to turn that into a header image, you’ll have to paste the code into a text widget then use tricky CSS to make the content of the widget show up in place of the actual header image. If you wish to do that, please re-post your question in the CSS section of the forum.

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