Trying to set up a free website
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I chose GRID in the Parent and GRID in the Child in page attributes.
The parent must be assigned to a grid template. Make the child pages grid template only if you want them to have children in a grid as well. Since my test parent was also assigned to grid template this doesn’t explain why the excerpt is visible on your grid page, and not visible in my grid page.
I did not nest them in custom menu, as sub items.
What you put in custom menus has no affect on what is displayed in pages or posts. Custom menus provide links to pages, posts, images, etc., either internal or external. If you nest links to the child pages underneath the parent page, the links to the child pages will display in a drop-down menu below the parent page tab in the custom header menu.
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If you nest links to the child pages underneath the parent page…
I mean underneath the link to the parent page in the custom menu structure.
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Hi MusicDoc,
the excerpt is visible on your grid page, and not visible in my grid page.
I put my excerpt in manually. I do not use the automated version of the first 55 words.
Are you inserting your excerpt manually?
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What automated version? Where did you put the excerpt? If you’re inserting it into the page editor, then it isn’t an excerpt, it’s page content. Excerpts are created in a special module, below the page editor window by default.
Are you inserting your excerpt manually?
Makes no difference. Paste or type, same result.
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What automated version?
I researched Excerpt and found that you could establish an automatic excerpt of the first 55 words.
I did not use that.
I copied and pasted the first part of my story and inserted it manually.Kind regards
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Excerpt, automatic excerpt, and teaser
The manual WordPress excerpt is often confused with the automatic excerpt or with the teaser (the part of a post that appears on the front page when you use the More tag). While both are related to the manual excerpt, they are different from it.The relationship between the three is this: When a post has no manual excerpt and the post template uses the the_excerpt() template tag, WordPress generates an excerpt automatically by selecting the first 55 words of the post. When the post template uses the the_content() template tag, WordPress will look for the More tag and create a teaser from the content that precedes the
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JB,
I’ll have to get back to you later on these questions. Note, however, that the paragraph you have quoted from is in a WordPress.org document. I don’t know why they included a link to it in the WordPress.com excerpts module. Some of the information contained therein might be useful for WP.com websites. -
I think you can safely ignore that entire passage from the WordPress.org “codex” Excerpt page, and instead turn toward the WordPress.com Excerpts support page. The most important passage in the latter might be the following:
Depending on the theme you have activated, excerpts you assign may be displayed on your homepage, RSS feed, or archives page. Your theme will also determine whether or not your excerpt is followed by a link that points readers to the full-length post.
Also note that in order to see the Excerpt field in your post or page editor you might have to enable it a Screen Options. The evidence suggests that you’ve put what you are referring to as an excerpt in the page editor window, where the page content goes.
Have you found out any more on SAVING the Elements in the Inspector Window?
Last night I gave you a link to a Google products forum thread which answers the question “How do I save ‘Inspect Element’ changes?”: Here is the answer again with a line I omitted last night line included:
The “Inspect element” tool is for web developers, to allow them to inspect their website (inspecting websites with this tool is a great learning tool, too, imo), and make changes on the fly. Once you refresh the page, the changes are gone — and that’s totally normal (and the expected) behavior.
In short, you can’t save changes made with the element inspector (the web just doesn’t work that way!). However, what you can do is this:
If you have access to the website’s source, change it.
Use “User Scripts” in Chrome, and use Javascript to make a one-off tweak to the website, forever fixing it =]WordPress.com members don’t have access to website or page source code. You can view, but you can’t change it.
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How do you save your corrected elements?
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Hi Music Doc,
In relation to your comment:
The evidence suggests that you’ve put what you are referring to as an excerpt in the page editor window, where the page content goes.Have I done the wrong thing?
These are the steps that I take to add an excerpt.
1. Open a page eg Stylistic Rome
2. Select Edit
3. Scroll down to just below “Writing Helper”
4. Insert text into “Excerpt”
5. UpdateIs that correct, or should I be somewhere else?
Kind regards
JB -
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The evidence suggests that you’ve put what you are referring to as an excerpt in the page editor window, where the page content goes.
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JB,
The steps you are following appear to be correct regarding adding excerpts to child pages of a grid page. But when you first mentioned excerpts you had some text in your page content area, below the title “Stories.” I thought you meant that content was created as an excerpt. My mistake. Sorry about that.
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Hi Music Doc,
For a little over 2 weeks now you have assisted me in the creation of my website. For this I thank you.
I am also grateful that Jeremy has also assisted me.
Both of you have become “My Advisors” in the creation of my website.
When I talk to friends, I would say something like “One of my advisors suggested that I add an excerpt”.This morning I reviewed all that you had written and came across a piece that I had not tested.
You can remove the title and the page content, but only — I found while testing — if you put something in the excerpt module. A mere dot is enough to do the trick.
Well I tried that on my Grid Template Static Page that I have set as my Front Page but it does not seem to remove the title and page content.
I am not sure why, but it may have something to do with the Parent Child Page Attributes.
You also mentioned
CSS Customisation
and later mentioned that this was not available for WordPress.com members.
Do you think it is worth paying extra to get this?
In the meantime I am going to look more thoroughly into your image size suggestions.
Kind regards
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In my review of everything that you have written, some things were creation changing moments. Like this piece of information:
Some themes have a special page template called Grid Page Template in which child pages of a page assigned to this template will display in a grid arrangement. This theme doesn’t have any template options. Themes which have a Grid Page Template include the following:
Sela
Motif
Goran
EdinThat opened up a brand new pathway for me, thank you.
Kind regards
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Hi Music Doc,
Another creation changing moment;
The images that display in a grid page are featured images attached to each child page, not images selected from the content of the pages.
At this point I felt as though I was really getting somewhere.
Kind regards
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Question on Site Visibility:
Site Visibility Site Visibility Allow search engines to index this site
What are the pros and cons of this?
Kind regards
JB
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