Spun theme: Static home "Post" page
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Hi, I posted this in the Themes forum but I’m thinking it’s probably more of a CSS question so I’m re=posting here.
I’m trying to build a site with the Spun theme that will use the circle post page “look” but I want the 10 circles to stay the same. Is there a way to do this? It seems like a static home page needs to be a Page, and the only way to build the front page to look the way the theme looks is to build them as Posts. Not sure if I’m making sense, but if you take a look at the blog I need help with, you may understand.
Right now, the “Older Posts” lozenge remains under the double row of circles, and when you click on a circle, the paste come sup looking like a post, with arrows showing other posts. I’m guessing I’ll need to customize with css, but before eI do that, I’m wondering if it’s even possible.
Thank you in advance for any guidance you can give.
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Hi there, the Spun theme shows only posts in the grid of circles and as you create more posts, the new ones will appear at top left. We could though, with CSS, exclude categories from the main page. What you could do would be to create and assign a single category to the posts you wish to stay on the main page and then we can exclude all others. If that would work for you, here would be the basic CSS to do that.
.home article { display: none; } .home article.category-mobie { display: block !important; }You would replace “mobie” in the selector on the second rule with the name of your new category you assign to the posts you want to show on the main page.
To hide the next/previous arrows on the “mobie” category posts, we can add this CSS.
.single article.category-mobie .nav-next, .single article.category-mobie .nav-previous { display: none; }If the above seems like it would do the trick for you, we can work out any details. Let me know what you think.
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Thank you so much for this reply. If I went this route, would I still be able to assign a page to function as a “blog” page? I’d like to have one of the circles click through to that page. I’m sure there would be details to work out, but that would be okay.
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Hmmm, this is a bit of a workaround as there isn’t a way to have two blog pages, and your main page is currently the blog page.
What you can do, and again this has to do with categories, is to assign a category, perhaps something like “blog” to all posts that you wish to show up in the additional “blog” page. You would then add that category to a custom menu and when someone clicked on “Blog” they would get a grid listing of all the posts in that category.
You can bulk add categories to posts as explained in this support page, which would make things faster for you. I would also suggest setting the “blog” category as your default category at Settings > Writing. You can always choose to use different categories at the time of writing a post.
There isn’t a way to link the circle images on the main page to pages. They are automatically linked to the single post page.
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Perhaps it’s better if I build another site to be used as a traditional blog and just link the “Blog” circle to that. I don’t want to deconstruct this theme so much that it doesn’t function as intended.
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That is one option, and perhaps the best option in this case. Let us know if you need additional help with anything.
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So, I’ve paid for the upgrade, and added the CSS you suggested, but I’m still seeing the next/previous arrows on the posts. Did I do something incorrectly?
I’d also like to remove the “Older Posts” from the home page. how might I do that? I’m also not sure what the Plus sign (+) is for. It looks like it might be hiding any widgets that are added at the bottom? But I’m not sure how people would know to click that open.
Finally, how would I link one of the circles on the home page to another existing blog address? If there’s a site where much of this information would be available, please let me know! Thank you.
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Oh dear, I’m sorry. It looked like the next/previous arrows were in the article div, but they are not. I can’t see a way to hide them only on the home category single post pages. We can hide them everywhere with this CSS.
.single .nav-next, .single .nav-previous { display: none; } -
Thank you so much of your help on this. Should I post additional questions separately or use the Premium theme forum? Thank you!
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If the questions are on different topics, it would be great if you could post them separately.
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