Problem with Block 3/Achieving desired look of homepage

Hi,

I recently purchased the Newspaper theme. Through your demo it looked like it provided the design framework that I was looking for.

I want to set up my homepage like the following website: http://i.imgur.com/I4mXIMD.png

It displays one article over another with a big picture and then the introductory text underneath with an option to see more.

When I go into the Visual Composer I found the Block that represented this: Block 3 as seen here.

However, instead I don’t get that at all. The block actually displays 2 or 3 small images beside each other such as this: Example

I was wondering how I can set my homepage like this: http://i.imgur.com/I4mXIMD.png since Block 3 doesn’t fulfill that role.

I’m familiar with HTML, CSS, and some Javascript. If the only way I can achieve this look is by going into the code I’m comfortable with doing that I would just need some guidance on how to do it.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks.

• This topic was modified 11 years by Hxadecimal.

Thanks Hxadecimal for the question and Alin for the answer. I have the same problem and was researching a lot for the answer. As a workaround I use Post “Grid Module”.

I wonder why there is no block 7 Module for Visual Composer. I would appreciate a lot such block Module.

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, setting the frontpage to display the latest articles removes key customization elements that I need to utilize. It sounds like my only way to achieve what I’m looking for is to modify the code?

Is there any way I can create my own block? Or to make it easier, take the existing code of a similar block such as Block 3 and edit it to fit my needs?

As mentioned, I’m familiar with HTML, CSS, PHP, and some Javascript. However, I’m still relatively new to this. Is there any way that you could give me a little bit of direction on how/where to find the code that represents these Blocks so I can customize my own? I would greatly appreciate it.

Any additional information that you think would help me would also be greatly appreciated, thanks.