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Hi. I just switched over to this theme from another theme and am having a hard time building the homepage.
I followed the instructions on https://forum.tagdiv.com/homepage/, and got the Featured Post section to display (by adding Featured as a category), but can’t seem to get any posts to display in any of the other sections on the homepage.
What is missing from the documentation link above? I’ve tried setting several sections to different categories, and played with several settings, but not of the other sections on the page are displaying any posts.
Thanks.
Hi,
My issue is as follows.
I upload all of my images, create my post and everything is perfect.
I upload my FEATURED IMAGE (which becomes my Thumbnail image) and it does not get properly centered.
I edit the pic manually, same thing.
I tried different resolution, same thing.
I noticed that the theme does not take into the actual cropped image or edited what it does is it take the FULL RESOLUTION of the image and then forced is to resize as follows:
http://i1.wp.com/www.WEBNAME.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMAGENAME.jpg?resize=326%2C159
I have a couple of issues with this ?resize=326%2C159
1) it means that on my homepage the FULL IMAGE resolution (maybe 720 res) is being loaded instead of a portion of it (cropped maybe) or lower res and then it’s forced to be visual cropped but not really
2) there is no control on what section is being shown.
Is there a way to fix this?
Am I missing something huge here?
Hi,
Unfortunately we don’t have a feature like that, you can do it by using this custom css:
.home .span4 .wpb_widgetised_column {
background-color: lightgray;
}Add it in Theme Panel > Custom CSS to change the background on your Homepage, you need other css if you want to change it on other templates as well, for example to change the background-color on posts page you have to use this css:
.td-post-sidebar {
background-color: lightgray;
}Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hi,
1. For the first one try adding the rev slider and the text content like this: http://screencast.com/t/tIvpXH01
Result: http://screencast.com/t/cjKYuy8b
2. You can do it like @TheMediumUTM said and add it using custom layout http://screencast.com/t/avK5ot1Kn9c
3. Please provide more details/screenshot of what are you trying to archive and we will try to provide you a fix for it. I have tested the button and doesn’t seem to work we will look into this.
4. You can use this custom css in Theme Panel > Custom CSS filed to center the header main menu:
#td-top-menu .sf-menu {
display: table;
float: none;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}Try this ones: http://screencast.com/t/athHle0z
Thanks for the suggestion, will add more in the future updates if more people demand this.
5. Like i suggested above you can use an “Text Block” element for that and you can chose a custom class and use it to change the font style by adding a custom css like this:
http://screencast.com/t/owpfgD3uXp
6. Like @TheMediumUTM suggested you can use a row and split the row into 2/3 content and 1/3 sidebar.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hi there,
Wherever I put the text ‘home’ on my site, be it the posts or pages, it links to my homepage, which I can’t even undo in the editor. How can avoid it from happening?
P.S. Similarly, right now I’m organizing the homepage as a large featured area on top, then individual category blocks scrolling beneath that. I don’t care if the posts are unique between the featured area and the individual category blocks. But if I want to have two different blocks making up that featured area, I do care if the articles unique within those. I can’t use offset if I set it to random, and I can’t use unique because that would affect the whole page. So another feature request would be to have articles be unique between a given set of blocks… 🙂
You need to create a new “page” and call it something like myhomepage; then in the WP settings, choose the static page myhomepage to work as home page.
The main wordpress docs are also very helpful in learning to use wordpress since the theme is merely an overlay of what wordpress does at core:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
I am having lots of trouble with this theme. I load predefine styles and the big slider doesn’t work.I post listed as featured but it still shows nothing. I have no idea how to move the blocks around and build a homepage from scratch. I was looking over docks and it said to start a “new” page but how do you make that page your home page? The biggest thing is the big slider doesn’t work. If I could even get that to work I would feel I was getting somewhere.
Hi guys,
I’m really enjoying the theme’s flexibility with typography, however “Block 6 doesn’t seem to have changed on my homepage (near the bottom).
For the second one, note that when looking at a row in the visual editor, the tab that allows you to divide it into columns also has a “Custom Layout” link in which you can enter your own ratios: http://www.screencast.com/t/maAkRnRv2
For the sidebar by the text box above the footer, breaking the row into two there and making the right side a widgetized sidebar is also an option.
I’m dealing with a number of challenges with designing my homepage (see http://dev.technologysedge.com). Things that I want to change are:
– Fix width for the page – Resizing the window page causes the slider and text box on the right to overlap.
– How to add a short code for column widths to be a percentage vs. 1/3 – 2/3 etc.
– CTA does not work properly. The CTA Style I’ve selected is Rounded w/ Right Aligned Button “Act Now” (which is not a button and located at the top). I want to pad the Heading 1st Line text and have tried to embed html code, spaces, etc., but nothing works.
– I would like to center the Header Menu vs. left justify. More Header Design Options would be nice.
– I want to change the font style in the text box to the right of the slider
– How do I add a r/h sidebar next to the Text Box above the Footer?
Thank you in advance for you help.
thanks a lot, shashank you have 4 adsense units in homepage, I think that is against adsense TOs…. check it out. 🙂
Salo
Hi,
You could do this from WordPress Dashboard > Reading Settings and set the front page to display your latest post like this http://screencast.com/t/GAUbd2Op
Then go to Theme Panel > Template settings and set Module 1 for Blog and posts template like this: http://screencast.com/t/jwAMA2oAun
Another way would be to create your own page like this http://screencast.com/t/kAy8dK9tEl9
And then set it like your homepage http://screencast.com/t/nWipxn9UP
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Hi,
I have checked your site and noticed these javascript errors http://screencast.com/t/X0uHutiDCo0 on your homepage, you also have some on your post page http://screencast.com/t/MtPNDo11EU6u
These appear due to plugin conflicts and not because of the Visual Composer plugin.
Please make sure you disable all plugins except Visual Composer and see if this issue is still there, then activate then one by one to see which one it’s generating the conflict.
Thanks
Hello,
I would like to arrange the layout of the Homepage, so that it works the same way as Module 1 Category – Blog Style, as you can see in the demo.
What I am doing is trying to customize the Page associated as Homepage, but I don’t see which element to use on Visual Composer to make the post show as Blog.
What am I missing?
thank you
Hi,
Glad you have managed to get this done finally.
Thanks for the message!
Lucian thanks for the quick reply.
I have tried what you told me, but i have a little problem.
Check this http://kaskarino.cz.cc/homepage/ (it a test site)
In content area the tabs work perfectly. The first one is a social counter and the second one is raw html. I copied the shortcodes and i put them in text box in the 2nd footer, but although it seems to work, 2 strange characters (>) appear around the title of the first tab (SOCIAL MEDIA). I can’t understand why this happens.
Any advice?
Hi again,
Thanks for the information.
Meanwhile I’ve found the functionality that I want. In the new version of Newspapper is possible select the primary category that I want to show. I just simply add the code above to the blocks where I want to show this one category, the other categories will be ignored in the front page. Perfect.
Thanks
Hi,
Is here possible set up a bigger pics on homepage?
http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/404045biggergrids.png
For example: from 326×159 to 335×170
Thanks
Hi,
I have tested this and seems to be working fine, make sure you have added the slider in the template like this: http://screencast.com/t/VzptCzabGa3 – this ex is for Homepage with background and no article list template.
Result: http://screencast.com/t/agcchZbY
Also make sure you have created the slider like this:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/revolution-sliders-source-post-not-working/#post-15382
Known issues using speed booster is that is used to be in conflict with Revolution slider but we fixed it, of course it may be incompatible with some plugins so try to deactivate the plugins also if nothing else solves this.
Please let me know if you manage to solve this.
Also please send along a link to your site if you don’t solve this.
Thanks
Hi,
I believe you want to make the slider the same size of the image in the right from your homepage. In that case the height should be 416px if you want 500px just modify the height in the css from 416px to 500px.
Add this custom css in Theme Panel > Custom CSS:
.td_normal_slide .iosSlider-col-2,
.td_normal_slide .iosSlider-col-2 .item {
height: 416px !important;
}Also go to functions.php file and change the images size like this: http://screencast.com/t/iHzRmY8GwF44
Then you have to regenerate your thumbnails like this: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-fix-strange-thumbnails/
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Ive done this step of adding the line and uploaded it, cleared all possible caches (even made other changes to theme to make sure it was clearing) and it still is showing the default homepage. Is there someway for a setting to be overriding the code change or something?
Hi,
Please check if you have the the “Unique Articles” feature active on your homepage http://screencast.com/t/jJDDUimpb1Fp
This may be the cause your posts only show in slider only.
Let me know if you solve this issue.
Thanks
Is it possible to use the Unique Articles feature on multiple pages at the same time without them interfering with each other?
For example:
– Unique articles on homepage from several different categories.
– Category pages built with only one category specified in the blocks where posts that was show on the homepage should be included.
I have tried it with one of my sites but it does not seem to work even though there are enough posts:
Homepage Tema Transport Homepage
One of the category page Tema Transport category page
Thank you for building an awesome WordPress theme.
Hi,
You have to identify what template are you using for your homepage and edit the template file http://screencast.com/t/xKfsedq7JJv
To add more field first you have to add them here http://screencast.com/t/7tUYwnoxR2Az
And then you have to create conditions like for the source and via here http://screencast.com/t/p00u5KiD
Hope this helps!
Thanks
