Nice as a concept demo, but useless for a real site

  • This theme has a nice design, but it’s lack of settings makes it useless for a real website.

    For example, there are different sections on the homepage, but there is no way to configure the content that is displayed in each section, this means that the exact same content is repeated over and over on the homepage, which is useless.

    If it developed further so the homepage can be configured I will improve my rating, but for now it’s not really useful in my opinion.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by elr3000.
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  • Theme Author Alexander Agnarson

    (@alxmedia)

    Hi,

    What you need to do is create two categories. One “Featured” and one “Highlights”.

    Then, in Customize > Theme Options > Blog > Highlight category and Featured category, set the categories created.

    Then simply add the post you wish to show in the different sections to these categories.

    Please reconsider your review score, thanks.

    Thread Starter elr3000

    (@elr3000)

    Thank you, that information really helps and improves the homepage a lot. I will improve my rating. I will make some recommendations below that would further improve my rating. Maybe there are ways to do these already.

    1. The first posts shown in “Featured” really should not be random, there should at least be an option to show newest posts first.

    2. As news sites want to have the option to feature breaking news and have a specific post shown first and have more prominence than any other post.

    3. There should be an option to easily change the text from “Featured” to something like “Breaking news” or “Alien invasion”.

    4. Any section titles on the homepage should have an option to add a link so that the title is clickable and leads to the main page for that topic.

    5. A dedicated random posts section would be better placed at the bottom of the homepage.

    6. The highlights title looks ok from a design perspective, but it uses and takes up a lot of space just for a header title.

    I hope this helps. Your theme was the first news template we looked at, and we have since checked out others. I recommend you check out the theme called “News Jack” as it might help you with your improvements.

    Thanks again for your help.

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