text shown in gridpage (edin theme)
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Hi! Im using the beautiful Edin theme and building a site for my dad. He sells ship models, and I want to use the gridpage as the front page when visiting the blogg/webpage.
Under each picture edin theme “grabs” text from a page, and I want to change several things:
1. How much text is “grabbed” from the page.
2. I want to make some words in the “grabbed” text bold.
3. I would like to split the text seen under each picture in several rows. I have tried the
in coding, but it doesnt work..My site can be seen here:
http://testsidamartin.wordpress.com/Best, Martin
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1. How much text is “grabbed” from the page.
2. I want to make some words in the “grabbed” text bold.
This can be achieved by setting a custom excerpt for each page as described here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts
You’ll want to use “strong” tags to bold the text like this:
jumped over the <strong>big fat dog. </strong>3. I would like to split the text seen under each picture in several rows. I have tried the in coding, but it doesnt work..
The only way to achieve this would be method #1 here (“The Plugin Way” not applicable):
http://vip.wordpress.com/documentation/how-to-create-columns-in-posts/
You’ll need to enter some non-breaking spaces after the second closing div tag. Otherwise, the “Read More” link is pushed up. A non-breaking space is the “&” symbol followed by “nbsp;”.
Give that a try and let me know if you need anything else!
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Many thanks jeremy, you are indeed an happiness engineer!
All of your solutions worked!Best, Martin
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Hi again Jeremy, I have two more questions regarding the Edin theme that I hope you can help me with!
How can I customize the ”READ MORE” button? I would like to change both color and text.
How can I add tags to a page? I would like this option so I can build up a menu system that links to all tags I have given the different pages. For example “New products” or “On sale”.
Thanks in advance – I really appreciate your help!
Best, Martin
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How can I customize the ”READ MORE” button? I would like to change both color and text.
This is going to be a bit tricky, but it looks like it’s possible. Normally, you can change the text of the Read More link following the instructions here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
However, because Edin uses custom excerpts for the grid page, that won’t work. So, we’ll need to insert the following CSS under Appearance -> Customize -> CSS:
a.more-link { font-size: 0px; } a.more-link:before { content: 'This link'; font-size: 16px; color: #fff; }The first bit removes the current “Read More” link. The second bit adds the text we want. Just be sure to change “This link” to the text you want and update the color code to reflect the color you’re looking for.
Can you give that a try?
How can I add tags to a page? I would like this option so I can build up a menu system that links to all tags I have given the different pages. For example “New products” or “On sale”.
It isn’t possible to add tags or categories to pages (only posts). The best thing to do here would be the following:
- Create a “static” parent tab (one that doesn’t link anywhere) that reads “On Sale”:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-static-parent-tabs
- Add the pages that you want as submenu pages under that new static parent tab:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
That way, when someone hovers over the ‘On Sale’ static tab, they’ll get a list of pages that are on sale. Does that work?
- Create a “static” parent tab (one that doesn’t link anywhere) that reads “On Sale”:
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