Static home page with photos for menu instead of top bar menu
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I am having terrible problems trying to create a static home page that has featured photos on for each page (e.g. fashion, beauty, lifestyle etc) and then when you click on those it will show you the last posts also as featured images and then you would click on those to open the post. Sorry if this is confusing, to see an example of the kind of thing i want to make, please look at http://www.lifewithme.com.
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Hi there!
You could get a similar look by using images for each category, just like on the example site, that you put on a page and link each one to the page for the corresponding posts.
For example, an image for Fashion could then link to the category page for fashion: https://stillalamode.wordpress.com/category/fashion (which would display all posts that have the “fashion” category assigned to them).
Or if you don’t want to load the category page for each one, and want the list with featured images instead, you could create a page for each category (like a page called “Fashion”) and use the Display Posts Shortcode to display a list of posts that readers can click to get to the post from there.
The Shortcode can be configured several ways to display different parts of your posts in the list. For example, this code will show the post title, excerpt, and a thumbnail of the Featured Image aligned to the right:
[display-posts include_excerpt="true" image_size="thumbnail" wrapper="div"]One note on using this option: The Display Posts Shortcode has a limit of 100 posts displayed, so it won’t show posts in a category beyond that like linking directly to the category page would.
Let me know if you have any questions! :)
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Thanks so much! I think i have managed to do it, you’ve helped me end my long confused misery haha! thanks :)
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