Harrington/WordPress Newbie – Layout Help Required!

  • Hi There – First post on here so please be gentle with me!

    I am a newbie to WordPress and am helping out a relative to set up a website. I am currently using the Harrington theme and i want to remove the blog postings from the front page. I know that i need to create a new page and set that as the static home page. My problem however is that the front page has the feature image on it.

    When i create the new home page it is just a blank page and when i set the template to default there is still nothing appearing. Also, there is an option in the dashboard to change add the feature image to the page but nothing happens when i do that. Can someone please help me out?

    The link to the website is: https://www.lothianfirewood.co.uk

    Thanks in advance for any help.

    Best Regards!

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  • Hello!

    At the end of the day what all do you want on the home page? I took a look at the site and it looks like you have the featured image there. Did you figure out a solution?

    If you’re hoping to customize the home page outside of what the theme provides you may need to create a custom page template. For example a template with ONLY the featured image and nothing else. Let me know if you need a hand with this.

    Thread Starter pesusweb

    (@pesusweb)

    Hi,

    First of all, thank you for responding.

    I am looking to have on the homepage a featured image with text underneath it.I cant remove the posts from the theme front page so i created a new static page (Home) but it wont seem to let me put the featured image on it. Even though the option is there.

    I will certainly look into creating a custom template page but any advice/tips you can give would be appreciated.

    I see. I think a custom page template will work. Here are the steps:

    • Duplicate page.php file as a starting point and name it page-home.php
    • Get rid of everything inside of the .page-content div
    • Add the slider code that you see in home.php (Inside the .demo_block div. This is the feature image.).
    • After the slider code add this code to bring in the WYSIWYG editor:
    <?php if (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
    • Add the template name at the top of the file like this:
    <?php /* Template Name: Home */ ?>

    Let me know if that makes sense or not!

    Theme Author inkthemescom

    (@inkthemescom)

    Hi,

    For your information, the theme comes with front page that uses Latest Post settings for the WordPress Front Page display settings,

    If you are looing for displaying a different page then, you need to set that setting to Static Page.

    You will be able to use your desired page as a home page.

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    Theme Author inkthemescom

    (@inkthemescom)

    Hi,

    For your information, the theme comes with front page that uses Latest Post settings for the WordPress Front Page display settings,

    If you are looing for displaying a different page then, you need to set that setting to Static Page.

    You will be able to use your desired page as a home page.
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    • This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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