“Latest news” set up on home page

Hi @simoncawthorne,

Thanks for contacting us,

To set the homepage section, Do the following steps.

To set the homepage section you can click on About SpicePress theme (Theme Dashboard >> appreance >> About SpicePress theme), follow this screenshot link. : https://prntscr.com/jjck9m

Now you click Go to the Customizer button, follow this screenshot link for it. https://prntscr.com/jjcg1m

Here you will see customize setting now click on Install and Activate button, follow this screenshot link for it. :https://prntscr.com/jjchne

Wait a few seconds Now your plugin is being installed or activated,

After this, you can use the section of the homepage or latest news section by clicking on the homepage section settings, for this you can follow this screenshot link:https://prntscr.com/jjcicc

If you still have any kind of confusion, then tell us.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by xoptimus.

thanks for the reply. Spice Box already installed. I re-installed it, and no progress unfortunately.

All the menu options are available, but no result when I activate.

— UPDATE—
I’ve activated the page set up by changing the page templates to business. (thanks for the pointer on this). This is good and it works, but for now it causes these pages to lose the brilliant red header bar with this template, which is the main selling point for me. Perhaps you have an instruction page where I could go to and work out how to tweak the pages and the header bar for this template and also include things like twitter posts, instagram posts as well as standard blog posts. etc. on the latest news section. I realise some of this will be WP native other than your theme, but I had hoped the plug-in would make this straightforward.
It’s still the right theme for my site though – thanks

thanks

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by simoncawthorne.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by simoncawthorne.

Hi @simoncawthorne,

We check your website at our end and its working perfectly.

If you need more section on homepage please activate spicebox plugin.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by xoptimus.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by xoptimus.

thanks – your post came through as I was typing the update on my previous post –

Hi @simoncawthorne,

If you want a layout like this that has a red topbar and you see all the latest news posts below, you can use the content child theme of spicepress theme. With this link, you can see a demo of content.
https://content.spicethemes.com/

Thanks

Hi, Thanks for this – I can do this with spice press too – ie set the blog up as the home page. In fact, I started off with the content theme – both are very well suited to what I’m trying to achieve.

I liked the idea of using the “latest news” formatting for a mix of selected blog posts and other things, and as time went on, adding the other spice box options. However, when the site uses the spice box formatting, it still loses the red bar for that page. I can work this out at a later date if necessary, but if there’s an easy work around (possibly changing the business page template css?), it would be great to know.

with thanks for your help.

Hi

The best solution is to activate content theme which is a child theme of SpicePress having masonry blog layout in front and you will get everything set automatically and once you are ready with other content just activate SpicePress Theme.

Regards
Priyanshu

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by spicethemes.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by spicethemes.

thanks – yes, now using content, but looking for the masonry 3 column blog layout option. checking the user tutorial section for instructions.

thanks

Hi @simoncawthorne,

For this, first activate the content theme, then go to Reading Settings (Theme Dashboard >> Setting >> Reading) and select “Your latest post” and save the setting, you can follow the given screenshot for it.

https://prntscr.com/jm1cjs

Thanks

thanks – I have it set up for static page already – it works OK for the main blog page as masonry.
I’ll use a plug in though to get it working for categories and searches etc.

thanks for your help