secondary menu removed but can't use blank area
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I thought if I removed the secondary menu from the right side of my website that my photos and text would fill in the blank space but it didn’t. My photos and text still stop short of the blank area. How can I use this blank side area with photos and text?
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Changing the size of the preview monitor shows that the blank area is filled with the full view of the photo & text. Problem solved.
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Hi there, are you talking about on the In Memory of… page, or High School Teachers 58, 59, 60, 61?
I notice some of the images on your site are less wide than the content area, and WordPress will show those images full width, but will not enlarge them past the full width of the image since that would cause a loss of quality. As an example, the image on High School Teachers 58, 59, 60, 61, two of the images are 666 and 783 pixels wide.
If you can be a bit more specific, I can see what I can do to increase things for you.
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Yes, I understand that I need to redo those pages since I removed the secondary menu. May I ask how you were able to see those pages as I am suppose to be a private website?
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Oh, I’m so happy I didn’t goof up the private part of my website. I would appreciate your help. With the page “In Memory Of…” I am not able to add more photos to each line/series of photos. If I add another photo it won’t line up with the other photos. If I try to increase the size of the photo to match the rest of the photos in that line, it goes downward out of alignment. I just seem blocked from adding photos so they complete the full screen across in alignment.
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Hi, on the In Memory of… page, the first 6 images in the top row are within one paragraph. The 7th is in a separate paragraph, and the last two are in a paragraph together. My first suggestion is to move all of the images into the first paragraph and that will take care of the misalignment at the end and make the image flow better on smaller screens. The issue I’m seeing though is that when on narrower screens, the names and dates below the images get out of alignment. The same sort of thing happens on the second and third row.
What I would suggest is to use captions on the images. With captions, the caption text stays with the image, so no alignment issues between the image and the associated text. You can put the date on a second line in the caption by entering a break tag between the name and date like this:
Larry Minich<br>Aug. 26, 1963I would also suggest using a Gallery instead of inserting them directly into the page content area. I would set the gallery for a “thumbnail grid, and you can select up to 6 columns. For the size, I you can try medium and thumbnail and see what you like best. You can either put all the images into a single gallery, or you can create 3 or 4 or however many make sense for your organization.
I would suggest creating a draft page and then play with the gallery and see what you think. Once you get things the way you want, you can switch to the HTML/Text tab in the editor and copy out the gallery code(s) and then just paste it into the other page.
One good thing about galleries is they will flow and adjust for different screen/window widths.
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Thank you for your help. I believe I have the page “In Memory Of…” redone. Since I have published the page, I can’t find how I changed the page to draft so I can see what it looks like on all devices. Can you tell me where to bring up a draft page? Also, I have a couple of more questions:
1. at the top of the page is screen options: what does discussion do? Is that so my members to my website can carry on a conversation rather than just a comment to me?
2. I have mentioned this before to a WordPress person: About 30% of the people I have sent out invites to my private website can not find where to signup with WordPress.com without signing up to make a blog. They should be able to click within my invite & a simple register page should open up for them to make a User Name & Password for WordPress. This does not happen. They do not want to register for making a blog. They do not click here & there around long enough to find the right area needed for just registering & quit.
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I found where to make a page a drift or to publish it but I can’t find where I could preview what the page looked like on all devices from computer, iPad, to a cell phone page size. Could you tell me where to find this area?
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OK, I found the area to view the three size devices. Really have to jump thru hoops to find things. About 4 of my invites said when they went to WordPress website through my invite email that they only got a blue screen with a circle in the middle of the screen with a W within the circle. What would cause that?
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Is it possible to click on a person’s photo & have a new page pop up telling about that person? If yes, how would I go about that?
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1. at the top of the page is screen options: what does discussion do? Is that so my members to my website can carry on a conversation rather than just a comment to me?
What that does is to toggle the display of the Discussion module, which typically will appear on the editor page below the text entry area. What that allows you to do is to override the global comment settings (made at Settings > Discussion) and turn comments on or off on a post-by-post and page-by-page basis.
2. … About 30% of the people I have sent out invites to my private website can not find where to signup with WordPress.com without signing up to make a blog.
I’ve not heard of any issues with this, but I have pinged one of our groups to get more information on this for you. Hopefully I’ll get an answer back quickly.
On previewing, that, as you have found out, is at Customize. You can navigation to the various pages on your site and use the device preview buttons to preview the pages and posts.
The popup would require code that is not allowed here at WordPress.com for security reasons, such as Javascript or Ajax.
You could link the image to another page and set it to open in a new tab/window, but it would open a full-sized browser tab/window.
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I’m not sure I understand about the discussion setting. What I would like is for my website members to carry on a discussion among themselves instead of just a comment to me. Is that possible on WordPress?
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If you have people that are having problems signing up for only a username, share this link with them which should get them directly to the username signup section. https://wordpress.com/start/account/user/
The discussions will need to take place in your comments unless they were to get together and do something over email or other such thing. The thing is, conversations can and do take place in comment sections on sites as one person posts and then another reads it and responds to it and so on.
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I really could use your help on this new project for my class website so I don’t confuse my members.
I am ready to change my website members from Contributors to Authors.
1. As I understand, they will not be able to change my pages but can start their own post.
2. Will WordPress sent out an email to these Contributors & notify them that they are now Authors?
3. How do I explain to them what to do to start their own post?
4. Do I need to approve their post before it shows up on the class website?
5. When they start a post where will it show up? At the top of the website with my pages? -
1. As I understand, they will not be able to change my pages but can start their own post.
The user roles and their limitations are explained in this support page. From that page:
An Author can create, edit, publish, and delete only their own posts, as well as upload files and images. Authors do not have access to create, modify, or delete pages, nor can they modify posts by other users. Authors can edit comments made on their posts.
They cannot edit change or delete any pages, or any other user’s posts. Only their own.
2. Will WordPress sent out an email to these Contributors & notify them that they are now Authors?
No, there is no notification of user role change sent out by email.
3. How do I explain to them what to do to start their own post?
Here are a couple of links that will be useful for new users in writing posts and getting familiar with WordPress.com.
Writing Posts
Learn WordPress.com4. Do I need to approve their post before it shows up on the class website?
You would need to approve a Contributor’s posts, but not an Author. They have the permission to publish their own posts.
5. When they start a post where will it show up? At the top of the website with my pages?
I looked at your settings, and you will need to create a Posts page and then set it as the Posts Page at Customize > Static Front Page. You will also most likely want to add that to your top menu so people can get to that listing of posts. All posts by all authors will be in reverse chronological order on that page. Each post will show the Author’s name or username in the post meta data.
As an alternative to a posts page, and depending on how many authors you end up with, you many want to add an “Author” tab in the top navigation and then you can add custom submenu links to that menu for each author’s archive page. The URL would look something like this example where “themedemos” is their username, or their display name if they have set something different at Users > My Profile.
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OK, I create a post & published it as Authors Post. I put it on the menu list & it is in my menu at the top of the page. I went to the Posts Page at Customize > Static Front Page & opened the list to choose Authors Post & it was not there. What did I do wrong?
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OK, I typed “Authors Post” in the Static Front Post Page blank space & I believe it is connected now.
>As an alternative to a posts page, and depending on how many authors you end up with, you may want to add an “Author” tab in the top navigation and then you can add custom sub menu links to that menu for each author’s archive page. <
I added the Authors under “add a tag” on the Author Post page. But I don’t think that is where you said to put them for a sub menu links.
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OK, I think I have put the Authors in the right place in the tab under Author in the menu. Please check it out.
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