Modification of Edin theme – front page

Your site is on WordPress.COM so you need to get help on their forums here:

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/

These forums here are only for self-hosted www.ads-software.com sites – not the same thing, but often confusing.

Hi FoodLaw,

I’ve been previewing this theme demo here: https://edindemo.wordpress.com/

Are you using the front page template? It seems that the difference between your page and the demo page is that, whereas in the demo page each article is inside a div with class featured-page, in your site both articles are inside this same div with class featured-page. This is the main reason why the grid layout is not being applied. As to why this is, however, I still can’t figure it out.

What did you do when you built the page?

I’m reopening this thread because I don’t think the OP ever got their issue resolved and the question and its resolution is exactly the same whether you’re on WordPress.com or self-hosted. ??

You need to add some text widgets to the three front-page widget areas to get the front page looking more like the demo:

I see that you’ve already appplied the front-page template to your front page, so once you add some text widgets to those widgets, your site should start looking more like the demo.

There’s more setup information for Edin here:

https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/edin/

If you need further help, please don’t hesitate to post over in the WordPress.com forums, where both staff and volunteers are waiting to help. You can post to the themes forum directly here:

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/themes#postform

Okay, so it looks like I’m one of many having issues getting the actual templates to look like the actual demo.

My problem is that I walked through the steps on https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/edin/ under “Front Page Template” and while I successfully got the header to work, the nice neat columns on the demo (https://edindemo.wordpress.com/) are no where to be seen.

What I mean is, there are six pages/sections linked on the demo: Grid page (with nice sky scraper pic; Full width page (another skyscraper pic), Alternate sidebar page (headphone jacks pic), Customer page templates (no pic), Social media interaction (no pic), and recent news (no pic). Below all this is a nice, professional looking footer with Our Location, About Us, and a navigation panel. There is nothing in the above “tutorial” and there is nothing at all about how to do any of that — just how to set the header pic.

Does that mean the front page does not actually use the front page template? Or am I missing some steps along the way?

This is exceptionally frustrating to say the least. I think there’s a lot of “unspoken” steps here that the demos take completely for granted. I think they assume you’ve a., do this as a part of your normal day-to-day business, b., assume you are intimately familiar with all the ins and outs of WordPress. It seems if you have elements on a page, the designers should have the common sense to explain how it got there.

As an aside, honestly, from a process standpoint, I’m confused why this is ever an issue. Templates should come exactly as is with the art work in place, etc., so people can just add their own pics, swap with what’s there, redo the text, and so on. Instead, for me and apparently plenty of others (I completely echo the frustration of the OP on this support page, also about Edin), this has been an arduous problem. In my case, I’ve been at this 7 hours now trying to get just the first page up and looking at all similar to what the demo lured me in with. And so far no luck.

Hi theotherradioguy – I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a tough time setting up Edin and I hear your frustration.

On the Edin demo site, these are Featured Pages:

You can select which pages you’d like to appear in those three spots within the Customizer > Theme Options:

Below that row are the theme’s three Front Page widget areas. Here’s how those are done on the demo:

I’d be glad to help you set up your site further. Would you mind doing two things so I can better help you:

1) Start a new thread so I can help you one-on-one: https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/edin#postform
2) Provide a link to your site in progress so I can see where you’re at.

Thanks!

Hi,

I have added text and images to front page one 2 and 3 in the widget section and nothing is showing on my static front page. I then tried adding the 3 pages i wanted via the customize – theme options selection and still nothing is showing on my front page.

I have added widgets into the footer 1 , 2 and 3 fine. Is it something i am doing wrong?

Thank you

lauramayibbotson – could you please provide a link to your site and start a new thread. Thanks.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/edin#postform