SELA Theme- Questions
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I have wordpress.com and have just switched my blog to the free Sela theme. I don’t intend on purchasing the premium package so I need as much help as possible with this. I’ve been looking through the forums and I still have some questions: (please walk me through step by step)
1) I want to create a Front Page Side Bar widget with a title “Most Recent Post” with the name of the post and the featured image.
a) Can this be done using some type of RSS feed? I don’t want to have to manually update this every time.2) How do I decrease the size of the overlayed box on the static home page?
3) How do I make all the images on the Front page the same size?
That’s it for now. Any one who can help and give me step by step directions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Hi.
1) I want to create a Front Page Side Bar widget with a title “Most Recent Post” with the name of the post and the featured image.
a) Can this be done using some type of RSS feed? I don’t want to have to manually update this every time.No need. You can use the WP top posts and pages widget. Customize it as follows:
a. Set the maximum number of posts to display at 1.
b. Modify the Visibility to display only posts.
c. Display as “image list” to show a thumbnail image followed by the title.2) How do I decrease the size of the overlayed box on the static home page?
Without CSS customization it will be at its smallest size if you leave the title field and the page content window empty.
3) How do I make all the images on the Front page the same size?
When you create the code that displays the images, set the dimensions the same for each.
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Hi Musicdoc1,
Thanks for your help!
1) I did this and top posts is only for the “most viewed posts and pages”. I want something like the image list or grid but for the “Recent posts” widget. Is there a way to configure this?
2) Got it!
3) What code and where do I put it? If you have a step by step that would be great
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@ handajohnson,
1. As you’ve probably noticed the Recent Posts widget has no option for images. You might be able to modify it with CSS customization.
The key to employing the Top Posts and Pages widget to target a specific post is to utilize the Visibility limiting tool. I don’t think the majority of WP users realize how versatile this tool is. With the Visibility tool, for example, you may set the widget to display only posts with a certain category or tag applied to it. So limit the number of posts displayed by the widget to one, and limit the visibility options by a tag such as “most recent” or “latest.”
3. What code and where do I put it?
Just your basic WordPress image code. It might look something like this
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-37853" src="https://songbook1.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/billie-holiday-01.jpg" width="234" height="300" />The easiest way to create a code such as this is to upload an image into a post or page editor, and edit (resize, center, link to an URL, etc.) in visual mode there before switching to text mode, copying, and pasting the code into a widget. You can tweak the dimensions and make other modifications later. The width of each of the three pixels in the Sela demo is about 259 pixels.
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1. A problem with using tags is that, if they are necessary and you are using the same tag for each new post, you’ll have to remove the tag from the previous post at the time (or prior to) the publishing of each new post. You could use consecutive number tags, for example beginning with “1” and adding 1 to the number tag with each successive post.
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Looks like musicdoc1’s given you some excellent pointers above!
For this item:
1) I want to create a Front Page Side Bar widget with a title “Most Recent Post” with the name of the post and the featured image.
You might want to try the Display WordPress posts widget:
It provides titles/links, and optional excerpts and featured images for a number of recent posts that you specify.
The Top Posts and Pages widget doesn’t necessarily display your most recent posts, but instead uses an algorithm to display what we determine to be the most “popular” posts and pages, based on things like number of likes or page views.
There is also the RSS widget and the Recent Posts widget, but neither has an option to display a featured image.
Let us know if you have any other questions!
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Thanks so much @musicdoc1!
Yes!!!!!!!! @kathrynwp THIS is exactly what I was looking for – format and all.
You both have been such big help!
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You’re very welcome, glad that’s what you were looking for and that musicdoc1 was able to help out too!
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