I’ve just purchased the theme, migrating posts from a previous theme.
The main page (blog/loop) shows the posts with its main image and excerpt text as the previous theme. The posts never got a feature image established.
However, the same articles showed in a category page look different and with an image placeholder instead. I can’t find a way to establish the SAME template, that is to say, the site wide template to show the categories, as is custom with many theme: as mere filters of posts!
If the solution is establishing a feature image for every post and, on top of that, establishing the proper size of its miniatures relative to the module chosen, I don’t want / I can’t do that now.
I just want/need that category pages be treated an look as the main page, like most themes do!
Why the default look/option for them isn’t the site wide template??
The main page: http://migueldimase.com/
A category page: http://migueldimase.com/educacion
Hi,
You are currently using the default WordPress blog homepage, from what I can see. The blog page will display the latest articles, the module used to display the posts can be selected in Theme panel->Template settings->Blog and post template
– https://www.screencast.com/t/OoWyH0DML
The category page module can be selected per category. Search for the category you want and select the module. Example
– https://www.screencast.com/t/xhS6lPJixuw
– https://www.screencast.com/t/42kM8xih4
There are many modules to choose from, pick the ones you like.
You can also create a static page with the tagDiv composer, set that as homepage
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/homepage-how-to-build-and-set-it/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-tutorial/
If the posts have no featured image set, a default placeholder will be displayed
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/featured-image-or-video/
Let us know if you have more questions.
Thanks
Thanks for your answer, Simion:
1) In Theme panel->Template settings->Blog and post template, there is NO template selected (it’s a pitty that this editor doesn’t allow to attach images directly), but there is no module “boxed” (as in your image it’s the M18). In adddition, NO module type (Mx) seems to correspond with the way the default Newspaper blog page displays the articles. SO, I couldn’t select “the same” module/template as the blog page anyway.
2) I don’t want to change the way the blog page shows the posts by selecting a different Mx module AND by selecting later the same module in the categories, EVEN IF the categories showed the same as the blog page then, BECAUSE I REPEAT MY ORIGINAL NEED: that my categories show THE SAME WAY THE PAGE BLOG SHOWS NOW, which seems to correspond to no module the users can reach, as far I can see… If, on the other hand, I am wrong, please tell me which is the module that corresponds to the blog page as shown NOW (“out of the box” Newspaper). By the way, it’s not the M18 module boxed in your image (although I assume that you used that one just as an example, becasue it’s nothing like the way the blog page looks “out of the box” AND because the categories do not look like the blog page when I change them to the M18 module…).
3) Thanks for your additional suggestion, but I currently don’t want/need a static homepage.
4) With respect to the placeholder images shown now in the category pages, I repeat what I said preemptively in my previous comment: if the solution is establishing a feature image for every post and, on top of that, establishing the proper size of its miniatures relative to the module chosen, I don’t want / I can’t do that now. I just want/need that the category pages show/behave IDENTICAL to the blog page, where images are shown perfectly! By the way, that should be the DEFAULT category look/behaviour in ANY theme: if nothing is touched, they should look/behave as the main page/loop but with fewer (only its) posts!
5) Saying it, again, in other words: my category pages should look as mere FILTERS of the blog page, showing just the proper/latest/all/whatever CATEGORY articles, but in exactly the same way/look/style/design as the out-of-the-box Newspaper blog page looks now, in which case there would be no need to establish feature images (which it’s my main goal), because I DID NOT established any of them in the posts that are currently displayed pefectly in the blog page which it’s using their main images just fine, as it was in my old theme!
6) Of course there is A way of doing this in ANY theme, but I just didn’t buy a theme to begin to work in something like this right from the beginning touching/cloning PHPs, etc. What is the BEST way of doing this in Newspaper?
Thanks again, Simion.
Hi,
1. There must a module selected, for you it is module 15 from what I can see
– https://www.screencast.com/t/EifsPOsIve
If you want to keep using a blog homepage and change the module, you can do it there. Change the module and the blog homepage should reflect the changes. Maybe clear your cache if there are no changes, to refresh the page.
2. If you want the same in your category page, select the same module. Each category template can has a module section option as in the screenshots I provided above. Select module 15 for the same result. Also if you don’t want a category page top grid, disable it like in this example
– https://www.screencast.com/t/xWwvLvmwEQ8D
3. You can keep using a blog homepage, there will be no problem.
4. Module 15 shows the whole content of a post. This is different from module 18 you use for that category page
Module 15 – https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/category/module-15-layout/
Module 18 – https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/category/module-18-layout/
So if you want the same result for the category page, modify it accordingly.
Module 15 does not require a featured image, it shows the whole content of a post, module 18 needs a featured image to create a thumbnail
– https://www.screencast.com/t/FtQpH8on
The images are shown in your homepage are not thumbnails, they are images in the post content. Almost all other modules require a featured image to be set for the post.
5. Please change the category page module to module 15 for the same results. Module 15 will show the whole post content as I mentioned above. There are different settings for the blog page and category pages, not a global module selection. Sorry if this is an inconvenience.
6. I don’t know what you are referring to, provide more details about it. What cloning is that exactly?
Thanks
Perfect, that worked. Thank you.
So, a fix to consider: the active, out-of-the-box blog page template (M15) must be boxed/selected/marked after installing the theme. This lack was the origin of my problem, because I couldn’t know which template to choose in the categories to look the same as the blog page.
Thanks again, Simion.
