I bought your theme and so far everything works fine. I use the “Simply Blog” style. My homepage only consists of the standard list of posts which is what I want. But how do I add an image (or a slider, but a static image would be better) to the head of the homepage with the blog list? I can’t find any option for it and am unsure which template file I maybe need to edit manually. The video tutorial doesn't really help me either.
Yeah, it's easy to add a slider to your homepage if you want. You can add the post sliders or a custom slider on the homepage.
If you want to add the post sliders, you can go to Appearance > Customize > Featured Slider > General > and check to "Enable Featured Slider" - you can also select the slider style on the option "Featured Slider Style" below it.
If you want to add a custom slider ( custom image/text... doesn't based on posts ) to your homepage, please do follow steps:
1/ Make sure you've installed & activate the plugin "Penci Slider" - if not, let's go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and install & activate this plugin.
2/ Go to Dashboard > Penci Slider > Add New and add your custom slides there.
3/ Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured Slider > General > and check to "Enable Featured Slider" and on "Featured Slider Style" > select "Penci Slider Style 1" or "Penci Slider Style 2"
Awesome, thank you, that worked! :-) Is there a way to increase the margin at the top of the slider? The image sits very close to the menu bar at the moment.
Ah, and is there a penci widget for a blog archive similiar to the one for categories? I need the background headline – I tried to add it manually but now there's to much space between the headline and the archive list.
1. Please go to Appearance → Customize → Custom CSS then add the following custom CSS code:
body { --pchd-mg: 58px; }
Change 58px with the spacing you want to show.
2. You can use the .Soledad Recent Posts widgets to show the latest post. In case you can't config it correctly, please send me the screenshot of the issue.
I've got another question - is there a way to preserve line breaks when having a standard blog list with post excerpts? At the moment all line breaks vanish and the post excerpt on the homepage will become one endless text. It's no major issue but would be great if I could change it.
Please go to Appearance → Customize → Posts Layouts → Standard & Classic: turn on the "Display Post Excerpt Instead of Full Content" option. You can also change the excerpt length at the "Custom Excerpt Length" option.
thanks, but that's already turned on. In the excerpt all the line breaks (paragraph breaks) are gone, it's one continuous text. Would be great if I could preserve the part of the text exactly as it is in the full article.
To explain it a bit further - if my text looks like this:
Hi,
I bought your theme and so far everything works fine. I use the “Simply Blog” style. My homepage only consists of the standard list of posts which is what I want. But how do I add an image (or a slider, but a static image would be better) to the head of the homepage with the blog list? I can’t find any option for it and am unsure which template file I maybe need to edit manually. The video tutorial doesn't really help me either.
Thanks!
Hi,
Thank you for loving our theme.
Yeah, it's easy to add a slider to your homepage if you want. You can add the post sliders or a custom slider on the homepage.
If you want to add the post sliders, you can go to Appearance > Customize > Featured Slider > General > and check to "Enable Featured Slider" - you can also select the slider style on the option "Featured Slider Style" below it.
If you want to add a custom slider ( custom image/text... doesn't based on posts ) to your homepage, please do follow steps:
1/ Make sure you've installed & activate the plugin "Penci Slider" - if not, let's go to Appearance > Install Plugins > and install & activate this plugin.
2/ Go to Dashboard > Penci Slider > Add New and add your custom slides there.
3/ Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured Slider > General > and check to "Enable Featured Slider" and on "Featured Slider Style" > select "Penci Slider Style 1" or "Penci Slider Style 2"
Best Regards,
PenciDesign
Awesome, thank you, that worked! :-) Is there a way to increase the margin at the top of the slider? The image sits very close to the menu bar at the moment.
Ah, and is there a penci widget for a blog archive similiar to the one for categories? I need the background headline – I tried to add it manually but now there's to much space between the headline and the archive list.
Hi,
1. Please go to Appearance → Customize → Custom CSS then add the following custom CSS code:
body {--pchd-mg: 58px;
}
Change 58px with the spacing you want to show.
2. You can use the .Soledad Recent Posts widgets to show the latest post. In case you can't config it correctly, please send me the screenshot of the issue.
Regards,
PenciDesign.
Thanks, the margin issue worked as you said. :-)
I've got another question - is there a way to preserve line breaks when having a standard blog list with post excerpts? At the moment all line breaks vanish and the post excerpt on the homepage will become one endless text. It's no major issue but would be great if I could change it.
Hi,
Please go to Appearance → Customize → Posts Layouts → Standard & Classic: turn on the "Display Post Excerpt Instead of Full Content" option. You can also change the excerpt length at the "Custom Excerpt Length" option.
Regards,
PenciDesign.
Hi,
thanks, but that's already turned on. In the excerpt all the line breaks (paragraph breaks) are gone, it's one continuous text. Would be great if I could preserve the part of the text exactly as it is in the full article.
To explain it a bit further - if my text looks like this:
Line 1
Line 2
The excerpt looks like this:
Line 1 Line 2
Hi,
WordPress core removes all the HTML format on the excerpt content. There is no way to keep the HTML content format for this case.
Regards,
PenciDesign.