Twenty Sixteen with Rebalance post sample format?
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I love everything about my Twenty Sixteen theme except for one thing. I’d like to have my “Home” menu option display previews of all of my posts- the title, the first photo, and the first few sentences- very similar to the format of Rebalance. This way, viewers can see the photos and easily get a sense of each of the posts. I would then have a “Posts” menu option, that displays all post content.
Is it possible to create the sort of Rebalance menu option I described above in Twenty Sixteen?
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Hi,
It would be pretty difficult to duplicate the grid-style of the Rebalance blog page on the Twenty Sixteen blog page. You might like some of the other magazine style or grid-layout themes available.
However, if you prefer to stick with Twenty Sixteen, one option would be to list posts on a static front page by inserting display posts shortcode into the page. You may customize the shortcode so that each post in the list includes a featured image (size options include thumbnail, medium, and large) and an excerpt.
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Thank you! This is very helpful.
I found that when I tried to display posts shortcode into the new static front page, the posts would not display a featured image (despite me adding that shortcode in). I think this is because none of my posts have a featured image, and I do not want them to.
The way I overcame this problem is I am posting thumbnails of the first image of each post in the static front page and then adding the link to the post and a small excerpt in the caption.
However, I would like for the images to lay side-by-side. When I do not include a caption, the images lay side-by-side without a problem. However, when I add a caption (with the post link and an excerpt), the image jumps down and I can only display one image at a time. Is there a way to overcome this so that I can have three images per row, with captions, next to each other?
Thank you.
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You’re welcome. : -)
I found that when I tried to display posts shortcode into the new static front page, the posts would not display a featured image (despite me adding that shortcode in). I think this is because none of my posts have a featured image…
That’s correct.
However, when I add a caption (with the post link and an excerpt), the image jumps down and I can only display one image at a time.
I don’t know. I got the same result in a page on a test site, but I used the old classic page editor, to which there have been some recent changes that I hadn’t noticed before. I used to be able to easily create a row of images with captions. I also noticed that the method I’ve used for over a decade for center aligning multiple images is no longer available in the classic post and page editors.
I’ll tag this topic for staff attention. Staff will respond here.
Is there a way to overcome this so that I can have three images per row, with captions, next to each other?
One option would be to create a table, with multiple images in a row. However, this shouldn’t necessary.
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Hi holysmokesghostblog,
However, when I add a caption (with the post link and an excerpt), the image jumps down and I can only display one image at a time.
Do you have these changes saved as a draft so I can see what is happening with the captions? I’m having trouble duplicating this on my side which makes me think I am going about it differently :)
@musicdoc1 — thanks for all your help with this thread.
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